On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:38 PM, silky wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Randall <[email protected]> wrote:
[.The USG says it wants to have back doors into all encryption
programs.
They could have put Phil Zimmerman in prison and bankrupted
PKZIP, Inc. if
they liked - but what leverage do they have against an Open Source
project,
which by its very nature has no domicile and no developer (like Phil)
against whom to apply coercion?
I don't see how this follows purely from it being Open Source. All
projects have developers, otherwise there is no project.
But anyway, it's probably a beyond my depth, and I don't want to
pollute this thread with my uninformed comments on the matter; mainly
I'm interested in hearing from Zooko or any of the developers
addressing exactly what they would do if "pressed" to implement this.
If the response is that they will never even *be* pressed, I don't see
the purpose of the statement.
It's Open Source - how are you going to put a Back Door into it,
without anyone noticing?
I'm outta this thread. Let's see what Zooko has to say.
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