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  • Debian conspiracy theories?

    From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 07:30:01 2016
    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    I found this one the other day:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298547

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From Ben Finney@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Thu Aug 18 07:40:01 2016
    Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    None that anyone actually believes.

    I found this one the other day:
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298547

    The author there clearly doesn't believe that one either, judging by the replies.

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    Ben Finney

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  • From Jakub Wilk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 15:10:01 2016
    * Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 2016-08-18, 12:24:
    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    * Long time ago there was a theory that a prominent Debian developer
    doesn't actually exist. Check out the thread from 2002-08-19 in
    debian-private archives.

    * There's apparently some kind of Swedish conspiracy: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/conspiracy/

    * https://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDwkVWH=r_moJj1_CKLxRUkkbBgHenZhwi8CzY9z3BO-Cw@mail.gmail.com
    Grep for "CT-PC89E". Or maybe don't grep, because it'll make you sad.

    * https://lists.debian.org/20160715161810.19098c7fddfa8fa0a37812df78620736.38adf61c6d.wbe@email24.godaddy.com

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    Jakub Wilk

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  • From Holger Levsen@21:1/5 to Jakub Wilk on Thu Aug 18 15:10:01 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:02:27PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
    * There's apparently some kind of Swedish conspiracy: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/conspiracy/

    I hate to disappoint, but this one is probably an artifact of http://ftp.acc.umu.se/conspiracy/


    --
    cheers,
    Holger

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  • From Enrico Zini@21:1/5 to Holger Levsen on Thu Aug 18 15:40:02 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:08:48PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:02:27PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
    * There's apparently some kind of Swedish conspiracy: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/conspiracy/
    I hate to disappoint, but this one is probably an artifact of http://ftp.acc.umu.se/conspiracy/

    The Trout Cabal instead is for real:
    http://www.zouish.org/posts/trout/


    Enrico

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  • From Elena ``of Valhalla''@21:1/5 to Enrico Zini on Thu Aug 18 16:40:01 2016
    On 2016-08-18 at 14:30:37 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
    The Trout Cabal instead is for real:
    http://www.zouish.org/posts/trout/

    And the links on that post are broken.

    Evidentely it's a conspiracy.

    --
    Elena ``of Valhalla''

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  • From Elena ``of Valhalla''@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Thu Aug 18 17:10:04 2016
    On 2016-08-18 at 12:24:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    There is the idea that the OpenSSL bug had been introduced by some TLA
    as a backdoor that sometime appears in the comments on LWN, but right
    now my google-fu is lacking and the only thing I can find is

    https://lwn.net/Articles/632815/

    --
    Elena ``of Valhalla''

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  • From Francesca Ciceri@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 17:20:04 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 03:28:07PM +0200, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote:
    On 2016-08-18 at 14:30:37 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
    The Trout Cabal instead is for real:
    http://www.zouish.org/posts/trout/

    And the links on that post are broken.

    Evidentely it's a conspiracy.


    Gah.
    Will fix.

    ...maybe.


    --
    "On va rester motivé contre les dégueulasses"
    Zebda, Motivés, Le chant des partisans

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  • From Jakub Wilk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 17:30:03 2016
    * Elena ``of Valhalla'' <valhalla-l@trueelena.org>, 2016-08-18, 16:05:
    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?
    There is the idea that the OpenSSL bug had been introduced by some TLA
    as a backdoor

    https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation_orchestra/

    --
    Jakub Wilk

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Fri Aug 19 08:10:01 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote:

    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    In 2007 there was a fun one in this lightning talk (15:58 to 25:00):

    http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/high/368_Lightning_talks.ogg

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From Daniel Sousa@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Fri Aug 19 15:40:02 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:24:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    I am not sure if this counts as a conspiracy theory, but a few years ago
    I sent this question to debian-security https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2013/08/msg00000.html

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Wed Aug 31 04:40:01 2016
    On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote:

    Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian?

    Here is one from IRC:

    Lack of .deb-intrinsic signatures has been designed to make it easier
    to backdoor Debian systems:

    http://lwn.net/Articles/698602/

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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