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Debian Developer Imprisoned In Russia Over Alleged Role In Riots (itwire.com)
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"Dmitry Bogatov, Debian developer and Tor node admin, is still being held in a Moscow jail," tweeted the EFF Saturday. IT Wire reports that the 25-year-old math teacher was arrested earlier this month "on suspicion of organizing riots," and is expected to be held in custody until June 8. "The panel investigating the protests claims Bogatov posted several incitory messages on the sysadmin.ru forum; for example, one claim said he was asking people to bring 'bottles, fabric, gasoline, turpentine, foam plastic' to Red Square, according to a post at Hacker News. The messages were sent in the name of one Airat Bashirov and happened to be transmitted through the Tor node that Bogatov was running. The Hacker News post said Bogatov's lawyer had produced surveillance video footage to show that he was elsewhere at the time when the messages were posted.
"After Dmitry's arrest," reports the Free Bogatov site, "Airat Bashirov continue to post messages. News outlets 'Open Russia' and 'Mediazona' even got a chance to speak with him."
Earlier this month the Debian GNU/Linux project also posted a message of support, noting Dmitry maintains several packages for command line and system tools, and saying their group "honours his good work and strong dedication to Debian and Free Software... we hope he is back as soon as possible to his endeavours... In the meantime, the Debian Project has taken measures to secure its systems by removing Dmitry's keys in the case that they are compromised."
"After Dmitry's arrest," reports the Free Bogatov site, "Airat Bashirov continue to post messages. News outlets 'Open Russia' and 'Mediazona' even got a chance to speak with him."
Earlier this month the Debian GNU/Linux project also posted a message of support, noting Dmitry maintains several packages for command line and system tools, and saying their group "honours his good work and strong dedication to Debian and Free Software... we hope he is back as soon as possible to his endeavours... In the meantime, the Debian Project has taken measures to secure its systems by removing Dmitry's keys in the case that they are compromised."
and it swallows log messages.
messages, but damn Debian for switching to systemd that swallows log messages and just makes our life hell.
Hello,
Consulting for several large companies, I'd always done my work on Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of good universal wifi support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext4 file system), all in all the process went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 10.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Public License". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
Thank you for your time.
It's sad how journalctl just doesn't show most problems.
Meanwhile the man they're protesting about, Putin, rigs elections, poisons people with polonium, shoots opposition leaders, throws journalists off buildings....
This is not about him or what he may or may not have done. This is about scaring others so that they think twice before hosting a tor node or any other kind of communication outside government control.
1) Yay for pervasive CCTV!
2) A computer nerd that can't figure out how to automate a web post isn't a true computer nerd.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Another fucking russian gets hauled in for justice for a!!
This is not about him or what he may or may not have done. This is about scaring others so that they think twice before hosting a tor node or any other kind of communication outside government control.
so he runs a tor node for years without getting arrested, but when he posts messages of insurrection he gets arrested?
call your doctor, fix your meds
Dirty svoloch.
That part sucks about systemd. If it logged errors, it would be better in every way.
This. That fact has made my life a living hell.
if you spend your life looking at log messages, you don't have a life, you're an expect script that poops
This. The unit files are easier to write than SysV shell scripts, bit swallowing log messages just makes it hell to use.
It is better in every way except logging.
Not logging errors just makes my life hell. I don't get why Linart just doesn't understand that.
In his real name - but on a TOR network. No one is that stupid crazy in that environment. Clearly a setup by someone else. Was Trump also posting messages?
debian gang goes to prison
I knew the war over Debian switching to Systemd was intense but I had no idea it had gone this far! ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
This. Sad to see Debian decide to drop logging messages.
This. Dropping log messages has made things difficult for us.
"but when HE posts messages"???
Why would he post messages from the exit node he runs, that's dumb it makes no sense. It's to use TOR is a way that bypasses TOR. (!)
Likewise the authorities know its not him, its the TOR exit node. So the arrest is clearly timed.
There's anti Putin protests in St Petersburg, lots of people are being arrested, they want Putin to step down and stop rigging elections. Opponents are being killed, poisoned, the press is suppressed. This is clearly related to the insecurity Putin feels at the moment.
If you look at forum screenshots there's more than "bring gasoline" in the incriminating messages. There're also calls to attack and burn down the police surveilence center, and to "destroy" (physically) the opponents.
Sounds like someone is still cranky that their psychotic leader killed himself because he couldn't handle meany-weenie coppers.
Nothing like locking a computer nerd up with the violent criminals. Put one in with three or four of the really nasty types, come back in a couple of hours to see what's left. It's amazing how a human body can survive - just barely - some treatment.
He should have protested in Berkeley, Kalifornia where the crazies are allowed to roam the streets looting, burning, hurting people, protesting.... ... or is that Oakland?
Nah. Same thing, same place. They are "just down the street" from each other!!