The only actual connection between FOSS projects and the use of secret communication channels is the author's general ethos of distrust. Taking your use of "se

The only actual connection between FOSS projects and the use of secret communication channels is the author's general ethos of distrust. Taking your use of "secret" to mean "private," because no one was discussing "secret communication channels": This isn't actually true; a lot of Free Software projects have private mailing lists.