[SLL] Fedora project lead seems to have played role in installing malware for FBI

Phil Mocek pmocek-sll at mocek.org
Mon Apr 20 14:49:51 PDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:36:13PM -0700, Rob Sherwood wrote:
> if everyone who had "worked for the government" (for all of the
> various things that implies) was shamed/banned from doing any open
> source work, IMHO, a huge fraction of the movement's best people would
> be lost.  Take the entire SElinux project as an example.

What if everyone who worked for the government or another employer
developing or deploying malware to spy on people were shamed or banned
from doing open source work related to signing off on software that is
automatically installed on many thousands of users' computers?

-- 
Phil Mocek


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