GNU: A Heuristic for Bad Cryptography

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10 pointsstackghost4 comments

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

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

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.

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

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