Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013, 14:42:36 schrieb Chad:
> Indeed, it'd be pretty hard to do. Since we use git, anyone trying to sneak
> something in would break history and likely get noticed.

That is not entirely true. Considering the live website is at best a git clone 
and not the main git repo (or just an automatic mirror of the git sources), 
all you'd need to get is access to the server, and secretly modifying the live 
sources. You could also set up a git merge hook, where git are pulled and on 
top of that applies your backdoor again, so the sysadmins won't notice in first 
place. 
No git commits involved here.
Just food for thoughts ;)

> 
> -Chad
> 
> On Jun 11, 2013 2:34 PM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Did you mean to post this on Wikimedia-l? Probably a bit offtopic for the
> > software list. :)
> > 
> > (And no, MediaWiki does not contain any NSA backdoors. But for all you
> > know, your server's BIOS might!)
> > 
> > -- brion
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]
> > 
> > >wrote:
> > > We can guess, of course, and some of us are very good guessers, but 
here:
> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=5-basic-unknowns-nsa-blac
> > k-hole-prism> 
> > > Fred
> > > 
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