> This is in my opinion not rational as well. Not contributing to a good > project, because others aren't rational? Seems like a lame excuse for me.
As soon as your opinion of me matters a whit, I’ll let you know. Until then, regardless of whether you think it’s a lame excuse, it will continue to be my policy. > In a perfect world it would be probably cool, to don't have > non-intellgence developers on crypto-software, but we don't have much > skilled contributers, and as long the software gets better in a > objective and in a measurable (I think it's possible), it's better than > not contributing. I will let other people chime in with their thoughts on your opinion of, “sure, let’s invite intelligence professionals to make code contributions to GnuPG and Enigmail.” > Same argument as above. A rational community should not take irrational > people seriously. Then you won’t have a community. Human beings aren’t rational. The quickest way to have no community is to insist that to be part of the community you must lack human failings, like irrationality. > If I'm reading the "You know spooks, right?" and "What are they like?", > it's not only the case, that you have a father, who is a judge, but you > know other people from the intelligence community. Given the FBI is an intelligence agency, then yes, I’ve hung out with intelligence types since I was about eleven. (State judges know the local police and sheriffs and troopers. Federal judges know the federal police — FBI, Marshals Service, DEA, and more.) I understand you don’t think the FBI is an intelligence agency. You’re wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation > Additionally I don't like your argumentation. In my opinion you are > relativizing the status of people from the intelligence community by > making everybody a spook. Sorry, no. There is a difference, between > googling a "blind date’s name" and working for the state to achieve > secret operations and doing things like economic espionage and the > espionage of the United Nations. Secret knowledge isn’t required: https://www.google.com/#q=OSINT Nor is working for the state a prerequisite: https://www.google.com/#q=Business%20intelligence You seem to have a view of the world which requires that intelligence be state-sanctioned, clandestine or covert, etc., etc. It’s not. All being in the intel business means is you’re acquiring information on behalf of decisionmakers — that’s all. In the modern era, we are *all* in the intelligence business… a fact which, I think, is poorly recognized by the world.
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