On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, if it turns out that Bitcoin has a backdoor in it, a > lot of people (some on this list) would take a big reputation hit.
That's most certainly not what would happen in that case. People will just find excuses — see e.g. people defending Veracode after it failed to detect basic incompetence in Cryptocat code. The reason is that those who are most equipped to affect someone's reputation are also those most likely to have professional relationships with affected people / companies. The thread continued from [1] clearly illustrates that — there is no lack of people who can professionally criticize Veracode's failure, yet they carefully avoid that. Reputation might suffer, of course, but you would not be aware of that from laymen discussions. [1] https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-July/009774.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
