On 9/24/20 1:05 PM, LuKaRo wrote: > Hi, > > I was searching for information on firejail, when the fourth hit on my > search engine was: > https://www.linuxsecrets.com/archlinux-wiki/wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firejail.html. > This looks like an exact copy of our archlinux wiki (including the > header bar) but hosted on Google's servers with no administrative > contact given. They also seem to run additional obfuscated JavaScript on > "their" copy of arch wiki. > > Their main page's "about us" page gives just a 404 error, and there is > no further imprint given. However, on their main page it says "Copyright > Linuxsecrets.com. All Rights Reserved". It looks like they at least > tried to copy ArchLinux Forums, Ubuntu Forums and Linux Mint Forums as > well. > > I know that GNU FDL allows redistribution of content, but I do think > that copying the entire wiki with no attribution or information at all > violates at least ethical principles. They also copy the wiki login > page, which is also interesting from a security point of view. An > unknowing user is misleaded by this content, and considering that this > site was the fourth hit on a common search term in my search engine I'm > worried by the impact. At least I wanted to make you aware of that our > arch wiki contents are copied without any notice. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247141 https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/i1d8ab/what_is_up_with_this_website_is_it_just_a_mirror/ As far as I can tell, this is just a mirror? The attribution is pretty clear, it claims to actually be wiki.archlinux.org and refers to it being graciously hosted by www.archlinux.org on https://www.linuxsecrets.com/archlinux-wiki/wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:About.html (Mind you, they have various broken links due to statically rewriting all urls as "foo.html" instead of the original "/index.php/foo" and this then causes browsers to mishandle any pages that contain a ":" in it, e.g. "Special:Random" or "Help:Style" or "ArchWiki:About".) Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern, but I don't see how it's a problem for attribution. Moreover, they're not the only ones doing similar, see for example https://aur.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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