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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:37:10 +0300
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From: Miacek and his crime-fighting dog <miacek08@googlemail.com>
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Might be as follows: you Biophys mentioned Russavia's kremlin.ru
licence, someone else commented here that this site might be useful
and I started posting images on 17 April.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Miacek

I happened to add categories to some pics of Russian figures that
Russavia had previously uploaded. He probably decided it worthwhile
not to have the document there anymore. See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Russavia/letter. It seems has
developed more careful wrt identity over time.

Miacek.

On 27/04/2009, Andrei Dombay <wikibiophys@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Piotr. Everything you are telling about is reasonable. I do not
> think there was
> anything "dangerous" for anyone. Actually, I asked a few hours ago one of
> wikimedia administrators (who I thoght was a trustful person) what had
> happened  with this file and why it is inaccessible. He did not reply but
> apparently took a liberty to black out the part of the text due to privacy
> concerns (which is perfectly fine, although I did not ask him about this).
> The real question is what had happened with this file previously, and why it
> was inaccessible for at least a day very soon after our discussion here.
>
> The computer spyware is certainly an option. I know  that the official FSB
> web site register IP number of every person who comes  to their site (and I
> did), and I lost a harddrive apparently damaged by a virus some time ago.
>
> Andrei
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl> wrote:
>
>> >
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Kremlin_authorisation-Russian.pdf
>> >
>> > This letter disappeared for a few days (an error message),  but
>> > reappeared (with all words in the upper right corner blackened!) a
>> > couple of hours ago. I did not tell about this letter  recently to
>> > anyone except you (until a couple of hours ago).
>>
>> So refresh my memory: what was there that was so "dangerous" to them?
>> It has been publicly logged that Russavia updated the files on April
>> 26th. Somebody should certainly ask him why, perhaps with the (valid?)
>> argument that messing with such files make make the permission invalid.
>>
>> What is puzzling is that the old version is grayed out and inaccessible,
>> I've just checked - revisions of past files should be preserved, I've
>> seen it in many images (where you can access and revert to an old
>> version) and same holds for pdf files. Example:
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheatsheet-en.pdf
>>
>> I think somebody should investigate (ask on commons... maybe on IRC?)
>> how one can remove ("gray") and old file. I don't think Russavia is a
>> Commons admin, and nothing in his logs looks strange:
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Russavia
>> If the graying out is was out of protocol or illegal, that would be
>> interesting :)
>>
>> > Someone in Moscow reads
>> > all our messages here. Please remember this.
>>
>> I don't think that's very likely. Yes, we mentioned that letter, but so
>> what? Sure, they have the means, but first, they would need to find out
>> about us, and then, care.
>>
>> Note that they don't need "spies" in our little group; they could have
>> infected some of our computers with spyware; if Chinese can do it, I am
>> sure the Russians are not far behind :> I'd suggest everyone takes a few
>> minutes and runs a spyware check on their computers, not that I expect
>> the government-level spyware will be easily detectable. Few more tips on
>> computer security from a relative amateur like me:
>> * use some Firewall and Anti-virus software with runtime protection
>> * use Peer Guardian software - it's free and in theory blocks known
>> governmental IPs from connecting to your computer
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian)
>> * consider using some software that monitors and lists what soft on your
>> computer can access the Internet; myself, I have to types of software
>> that in theory do that: Norton Firewall and NetLimiter
>> * also, occasionally look at what stuff resides in your computer memory
>> and make sure all looks legit. Here's the best solution I found so far
>> (free from Microsoft!):
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
>> Once you have the list, google the individual processes.
>> Again, this is not fullproof - the only way to be hacker-proof is to
>> take your computer offline, and work in a Faraday Cage :D But if we are
>> really compromised, I'd vote for spyware rather then a spy, and to be
>> honest, I don't think it is unlikely, if Cartel USSR Forever really
>> exists and is connected with Russian gov, for them to be able to request
>> spyware to be put on the comps of their most dedicated opponents
>> (Biophys, Digwuren - I'd really recommend you take the precautions I
>> listed above!).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Piotr Konieczny
>>
>> "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
>> theory."
>>
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