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On the chance that this is true (I have no reason to trust the British government on any surveillance topic), that would mean one of three things: 1. Snowden messed up and chose a bad encryption scheme/key. 2. Russia and China have the ability to break secure encryption schemes. 3. One of the journalists entrusted with the documents messed up with the handling of the keys.

Only number 3 seems a little bit possible, and even then I'm skeptical...

The Tomte (Nisse in Norwegian and Danish) is close to what's called a gnome in English, and usually lives somewhere on the farm. As long as it is respected, and offered food for Yule eve/Christmas eve, it will help take care of the farm. If it is not respected, it will play lots of little or big pranks, like tipping over a bucket with milk, or opening the barn door to let the animals run off.

It does NOT spy on children, and frankly, they live in a completely different universe than the modern Santa.

Hmm. If you say so.

I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the idea, but I'll gladly defer to people with more experience on this matter than me.

Besides, the only alternative I can come up with, is some form of procedure for voting out crates which doesn't play nice with the community...

But how does one avoid having crates.io being flooded by bad/useless crates?

And couldn't the same crates end up occupying all the "good" crate names?