[Boston-editorial] Proposal: hide half-assed hacking coverage

[petrina]

i didn't have a problem with this one either. there
were some other ones though that were questionable in
the other press and i think they were hidden but
reposted. dogspot i think was the author. petrina


--- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> What, this post: 
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/35859/index.php
> ?
> 
> I agree it's not terribly detailed, but it doesn't
> violate policy and 
> as long as that's the case, I can't see how we can
> stop collective 
> members from posting what they want.
> 
> If Sofia hadn't posted it, someone else would have.
> People who try 
> getting to the hacked sites, get redirected to US
> Indy Media, where 
> there's a feature about technical difficulties--with
> plenty of comments 
> about it being a case of hacking, not technical
> difficulties. So the 
> word is already out. If you can give me a pressing
> security reason to 
> hide it, then I would support doing so, but as is it
> seems pretty 
> harmless to me. Indeed, it seems good to let people
> know that Indy 
> Media sites are being hacked.
> 
> I do agree we shouldn't feature anything until there
> is some consensus 
> among the various affected IMCs about how they want
> to cover it.
> 
> -- Matt
> 
> On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Pete Stidman wrote:
> 
> > no offense to sofiushka on that half-ass comment,
> but
> > the coverage of the hacking of indymedia's is
> > something that US indymedia is still discussing
> how to
> > do.  I think it would have been better if this was
> > discussed in at least the listserv before
> publishing
> > articles on our website about a security breach.
> >
> > Sofiushka's article contains merely a list of
> sites
> > downed, and is a magnet for trolls as we can
> already
> > see from the comments.  Since we are a small
> group, if
> > someone agrees with me can they take them both
> down
> > (also gromit, who says hacking NYC was a good
> thing!)
> > and post to this list?
> >
> > -Pete
> >
> >

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