Brian Smith, Eric Rescorla, Julien Vehent... all of these individuals have dragged their feet on certain security/privacy issues in the past in ways that could

Brian Smith, Eric Rescorla, Julien Vehent... all of these individuals have dragged their feet on certain security/privacy issues in the past in ways that could have benefited intelligence agencies, particularly pre-Snowden when scrutiny was arguably far lower. They've also all done pretty positive things at one point or another: there's some nuance there. I would encourage anyone with time/interest in these issues to get to know these people personally if possible and to think critically about their pre-Snowden attitudes toward engineering choices related to privacy/security as reflected in their code contributions or policy decisions, rather than simply wielding pitchforks..