"Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote in message news:522c6e4e$0$29988$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com... > On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:04:59 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> As for trusting python in general, I do trust the python developers, but >> recent NSA revelations call just about all aspects of computing, trust, >> and privacy into doubt. > > "Recent" revelations? Where have you been for the last, oh, 20 odd years? > > Remember when people who talked about Carnivore and Echelon were > considered in tin-foil hat territory? I do. > > I think it was Paul Krugman who talks about the one thing worse than > being wrong is being right too soon. In context, he's referring to the > Bush administration's adventures in Iraq, and how those who were right a > decade ago are still routinely ignored even after being proven right, > while the Very Serious People who were utterly, obviously wrong are still > feted as experts. The same applies to the surveillance society. This > didn't just appear overnight. You don't build programmes the size and > complexity of PRISM, Tempora, Stellawind, X-Keyscore, Dropmire, and no > doubt others that we still don't know about, overnight. > > When it comes to NSA spying, before Edward Snowden, there were these > other guys: > > http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/ > > > And if you think it's just the NSA, you *really* haven't been paying > attention. From 2005: > > http://www.noplacetohide.net/ > > > > -- > Steven
I think this article is relevant althought the code examples are not Python but C: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list