📅 Original date posted:2014-05-19
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On 05/19/2014 11:07 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I promise that if bad people show up with a sufficient pointy gun
> that I'll do whatever they tell me to do. I'll make bad proposals,
> submit backdoors, and argue with querulous folks on mailing lists,
> diverting them from real development and review work, all as
> commanded. Maybe I'll try to sneak out a warning of some kind,
> maybe... but with my life or my families or friends lives on the
> line— probably not.
>
> ... and I think that anyone who tells you otherwise probably just
> hasn't really thought it through. So what is the point of
> commitments like that? People change, people go crazy, people are
> coerced. Crap happens, justifications are made, life goes on— or so
> we hope.
I presume you're familiar with the concept of a warrant canary, so
presumably you'd also see why public statements such as I was
discussing would be similarly useful.
Social contracts make it more difficult to hide coercion, which serves
no one except the attackers.
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2023-06-07 15:21:48
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