GNU: A Heuristic for Bad Cryptography

10 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by stackghost

4 Comments

wmf

13 hours ago

GNU Anything tends to exist for ideological reasons and the technical side often gets a pass.

stackghost

13 hours ago

Sure, I have no problem with projects that are political first and foremost.

I just wish they'd be honest about priorities. If technical function and correctness is going to take a back seat to ideological purity then they owe it to their users to make this clear up front.

wmf

13 hours ago

No one is going to admit they're building the open source equivalent of a Yugo.

stackghost

14 hours ago

In light of the gpg.fail post I thought this was poignant and relevant