Some old folk are reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States
Lolz. Please… continue. Don’t leave us all in the lurch to explain your crazy ideas to yourself. Share with the group!
No, you’re linking to a conspiracy theory in Wikipedia.
What? No: I am a graybeard, and I lived through those software embargoes.
sir this is a public fora, people speak as they wish?
better reasoning comment up:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/348217/Phoronix-Linus-Torvalds-Comments-On-The-Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Being/comment/3467412#entry-comment-3467412
The security issue is very likely scenario. If you’re in Russia, you can go to jail at any moment on totally bogus charges. It is very easy for FSB to pressure some random kernel maintainer into adding hard to detect backdoor into their code, it will be XZ situation all over again.
This actually makes common sense.
Freeze peach doesn’t mean you can call people "fag"s. By using that word you’re 1. insulting those who express their gender as they wish 2. calling us names
Also, my point is that there is precedent for laws to geopolitcally restrict open source. I agree that there is a real security issue.
I’m a soy boy
sir this is a public fora, people speak as they wish?
As you know, they do not.
Oh, did I get whooshed by a meme? :(
Ah, the Crypto Wars…
