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All this drama spawns a few interesting questions:

* How should Open Source Projects deal with internal drama?

* Should people who have a history of working with governments be shunned by the infosec community?

While I have no input on the first one, I can't help but notice that the connection between tor and the US government is already so strong (funding, the lead developer "arma" being a former NSA intern) that "undermining tor" would be pointless.

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If "the infosec community" is a small subculture that has chosen to co-opt the term "infosec" to describe its own idiosyncratic politics, sure. The remaining plurality of software and network security people who have worked at some point with governments can, I suppose, pick a new name for themselves. I never did like "infosec community" as a descriptor.

What gets me is once we know who the ex-government people are, they sure as hell become huge targets for people still working for the gov.

I wonder how many times arma has been approached.

I hate saying it, but I do feel like ex-gov is fruit of the poisonous tree.. at the same time I think these people specifically would understand the need for tor.

Depends on their motives for joining the gov in the first place? Leaking and whistleblowing? Awesome! Everything else? Not so much.

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