My guess is he was downvoted either for political reasons (by someone who's pro-Anonymous and mistakenly took his comment as a knock against them[1]), or because the downvoter wasn't security-savvy enough to know that gnu8's concern is legitimate.
[1] "Anonymous is not unanimous" and all that, but at the risk of No-True-Scotsmanning, either the distro is legitimately from Anonymous and contains no malware, or it contains malware and isn't legitimately from Anonymous (rather is intended as an attack against them).
[1] "Anonymous is not unanimous" and all that, but at the risk of No-True-Scotsmanning, either the distro is legitimately from Anonymous and contains no malware, or it contains malware and isn't legitimately from Anonymous (rather is intended as an attack against them).