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Re:We ditched Google Analytics by etjossem on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:25PM (#10697836)
This is pretty bad. Piwik could be a high value target depending on the nature of the site it is used to analyze.

I can't believe unsalted MD5 is "by design" (https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/8753).

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Re:We ditched Google Analytics by sarciszewski on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:28PM (#10697855)
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-cove...

Considering Piwik is used by the GCHQ, I find it hilarious.

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Re:We ditched Google Analytics by Someone1234 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:00PM (#10698094)
They're using an open source analytics software package to analyse the very data it was designed to analyse.

I don't find it using poorly implemented hashing in the administrative interface to be at all relevant to what they're doing, or why they shouldn't be using it.

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Re:We ditched Google Analytics by etjossem on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:42PM (#10698388)
Information on who visits WikiLeaks - and what they read and upload - is an incredibly high value target. I don't see how you can argue otherwise, when Britain's top intel agency has an expensive line item in their budget just to get at that info.

Given these known security flaws, it's not a stretch to assume anyone who can see the GCHQ's Piwik server can have that data too, regardless of whether they are authorized.

See below for a small preview of what an attacker could exfiltrate (dissident IPs redacted for a reason):

https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2014/02/piwik2.png

While we're talking about poor security practices: the privileged username in the screenshot is apparently still the default ("admin"), so I hope the password isn't still "changeMe" ... http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_191/

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