On: Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

[hackula1]

"... it's worse than that. They used git. They can git your kids, git your job, git your family; all with one command. They can even clone you. These hackers will be pulling and pushing this country apart!"

[dingaling → hackula1]

Interesting! I hadn't considered that connotation of git.

To Euro-English speakers, 'git' is a rather coarse pejorative term for a person:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=git

It's fairly vulgar, of a similar coarseness to calling someone a 'stupid fucker' in US terms.

The in-joke being that Mr Torvalds chose the name specifically to cause offense.