Think of it like politics: politicians are public figures who, by virtue of becoming a public figure, give up many of their rights to privacy. Why? Because they

Think of it like politics: politicians are public figures who, by virtue of becoming a public figure, give up many of their rights to privacy. Why? Because they have power, and the public has a right to know who exercises that power. For security-hardened distributions, I can easily imagine a security control where contributor identity must be public and publicly verifiable, and to reject code which cannot be reliably attributed. Don't like it? Contribute to software with less impact instead.