[hackerspaces] Wikileaks mass mirroring party

Koen Martens gmc at sonologic.nl
Sun Dec 5 21:46:59 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:25:28PM +0100, Caspar Clemens Mierau wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Koen Martens wrote:
> > Pardon my paranoia, but what prove do i have that this is indeed
> > wikileaks asking me to put their pubkey in a server, and not some evil
> > genius building a botnet of willing victims??
> 
> You cannot prove that. But nobody asked for a ssh root access. Just
> provide a locked down ftp or stripped ssh account and everything is
> fine.

That I would do anyway, it just strikes me as an odd way of doing things, 
even more so because there are also url's circulating with the same
instructions on public pastebin's that can be modified by anyone.

Gr,

Koen



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