-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/08/15 16:05, Kristy Chambers wrote: > The usability team consists of some people, like Robert, who "has > lifelong close affiliations with government and law-enforcement". > Maybe he is an NSA-agent with an interest to make the usability of > Enigmail bad. To do this, he doesn't need to do something > actively. He just needs to nothing, as long as people like here in > the thread are cheering like Enigmail is the usability-friendliest > tool in the world. As far as I know, Robert actively defends to > stay with the usability-unfriendly terms of Enigmail in the > Enigmail project. If the Enigmail project wants to establish high > standards. People like Robert shouldn't be in the usability team." > > As I mentioned, I "played" the crowd. It doesn't reflect my > opinion. It should only show, how irrational itself it is to take > irrational garbage seriously.
Just in the interest of speculative tinfoil, if Robert wished to harm the success of Enigmail and its goals, all he would need to do would be to make a few significant code contributions without saying anything about his background, and then some time later let his affiliations and associations be "discovered". This would probably irrevocably taint much of the Enigmail codebase in the eyes of many people. That said, if I were in Robert's position, I would do exactly as he has: refuse to touch the code and say, clearly and up front, "And this is why I cannot." Where I have seen Robert tender opinions on usability issues, they have as far as I recall been suggestions to improve usability while maintaining security, or improve security while preserving usability. I find no fault with either. However, security is a complex field, and there are things that simply must be done right, and a certain minimum level of understanding is *necessary* in order to do those things right. There is only just so much that it is possible to simplify the software interface to those tasks without jeopardizing security, and that is a poor trade-off. - -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEAREIAAYFAlT8wOEACgkQ0DfOju+hMklpgQCgm0/KpJBpUjxndIzDBKZtx226 KU8AnAmUptI92dSihax0zypnjyTogFq2 =KhIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
