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>they're the ones shipping grievously broken cryptography to try to "stop the NSA" I don't understand this aspect of the strawman. Could someone help me out? I
by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>they're the ones shipping grievously broken cryptography to try to "stop the NSA"
I don't understand this aspect of the strawman. Could someone help me out? In the context of the previous two examples of how members of group 1 act, is tptacek merely implying that members of group 1 are stupid?
- vox_mollis 10y agoThis can probably be read as a dog-whistle to his war on the EFF Scorecard in general, CryptoCat in particular, and Nadim personally.
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- tptacek 10y agoIt's not complicated. Most of the world's really bad amateur crypto is written as a vanity exercise in saving the world. It's not like there's uncertainty about whether people have launched grievously, dangerously broken crypto software; they have. And those people do tend to be #1's. Also, please do not try to represent my problem with the EFF's scorecard as somehow idiosyncratic. There probably aren't too many crypto engineers who don't share my opinion of it. You're probably giving me more credit than I deserve when you call it "my war".