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All this drama spawns a few interesting questions: * How should Open Source Projects deal with internal drama? * Should people who have a history of working w
by mercuryIntox 10y ago
All this drama spawns a few interesting questions:
* How should Open Source Projects deal with internal drama?
* Should people who have a history of working with governments be shunned by the infosec community?
While I have no input on the first one, I can't help but notice that the connection between tor and the US government is already so strong (funding, the lead developer "arma" being a former NSA intern) that "undermining tor" would be pointless.
- tptacek 10y agoIf "the infosec community" is a small subculture that has chosen to co-opt the term "infosec" to describe its own idiosyncratic politics, sure. The remaining plurality of software and network security people who have worked at some point with governments can, I suppose, pick a new name for themselves. I never did like "infosec community" as a descriptor.
- coroutines 10y agoWhat gets me is once we know who the ex-government people are, they sure as hell become huge targets for people still working for the gov. I wonder how many times arma has been approached. I hate saying it, but I do feel like ex-gov is fruit of the poisonous tree.. at the same time I think these people specifically would understand the need for tor.
- ashitlerferad 10y agoDepends on their motives for joining the gov in the first place? Leaking and whistleblowing? Awesome! Everything else? Not so much.