> ioerror: I shut down the city of san francisco to stop the war
> ioerror: Once, I was deported from Lebanon for being jewish, which was because htey said i was a spy for israel (false)
> ioerror: If we have a CIA person working with Tor, I won't get out of that next time, I fear
All this drama spawns a few interesting questions:
* How should Open Source Projects deal with internal drama?
* Should people who have a history of working with governments be shunned by the infosec community?
While I have no input on the first one, I can't help but notice that the connection between tor and the US government is already so strong (funding, the lead developer "arma" being a former NSA intern) that "undermining tor" would be pointless.
If "the infosec community" is a small subculture that has chosen to co-opt the term "infosec" to describe its own idiosyncratic politics, sure. The remaining plurality of software and network security people who have worked at some point with governments can, I suppose, pick a new name for themselves. I never did like "infosec community" as a descriptor.
What gets me is once we know who the ex-government people are, they sure as hell become huge targets for people still working for the gov.
I wonder how many times arma has been approached.
I hate saying it, but I do feel like ex-gov is fruit of the poisonous tree.. at the same time I think these people specifically would understand the need for tor.
