I definitely see your point -- who hasn't seen or heard of companies ruined by officious rulemakers with no clue, rules to make something more secure that do th

I definitely see your point -- who hasn't seen or heard of companies ruined by officious rulemakers with no clue, rules to make something more secure that do the exact opposite etc. I've seen my share. But blanket-banning an obsolete and insecure hash algorithm isn't a bad thing, it's entirely reasonable. In this case, as the article makes clear, it's git that's at fault.