[kwlug-disc] Panama Files, Mossack Fonseca and Open Source ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Most of us have heard about the Panama Files by now.

Apart from the political and financial implications of this leak, there is
a huge open source angle ...

Forbes article (annoying site requires Javascript and disabling ad
blockers, but definitely worth the read ... )

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/04/05/panama-papers-amazon-encryption-epic-leak/#32d779911df5

There is more technical details in this article.

http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=5357

They are running a 2013 version of Drupal that is vulnerable to SQL
injection. There is something about Oracle HTTP server too. Their web
server seems to be ignoring the .htaccess setup by Drupal, and returns back
the entire code of the .module files.

More interesting is how ICIJ setup their own collaboration around the
documents using open source software, like VeraCrypt (fork of TruCrypt),
Backlight, and Oxwall.

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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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