My previous email was pretty dry and impersonal. This one is very personal.
Isn't the NSA "a government based organisation?" Surely guilt-by-association renders every government based organisation just as nefarious as the NSA.
My current job is in software forensics -- discovering new ways to pull information off electronic media. Most of the people funding research in this area are connected to the government somehow. I would describe what a typical week for me entails but I'm pretty sure I would terrify and traumatize a good portion of the list. (A great week for me is one in which I don't have to see, hear, or even think about, the three words, "Daddy, no, stop!") But since some of my R&D funding comes from the government, I'm just as nefarious as the NSA.
John Moore III, who hasn't been seen on this list in ages, was always quite open about the fact he served in the Marine Corps attached to a signals intelligence unit at Fort Meade. I'll let you do the math and figure out what three letter agency at Fort Meade does signals intelligence. Apparently John's contributions to the GnuPG community mean nothing, because he's just as nefarious as the NSA.
Werner has taken money from the German government to do crypto-related software development. Apparently Werner is just as nefarious as the NSA.
There are a lot of people on this list who have some kind of connection to the government. Many of them -- us -- are deeply concerned about civil liberties, surveillance, and the future of liberty. We are not your enemies and we do not deserve to be tarred with that brush.
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