On 8/10/2022 12:21 PM, Fernando Gont
wrote:
Hi, Tim,
On 10/8/22 16:13, Tim Bray wrote:
It's actually an interesting new kind of thing. When somebody's doing something that law-enforcement considers wildly illegal and building their technology on a public open-source hoster, will this sort of enforcement become routine? Um, maybe if you're doing something seriously sketchy, don't do it on GitHub or equivalent?
Please consider some security tools or technologies, which at times are considered illegal or embargoed, and redo the thought experiment...
Aside, there's a difference, maybe, between removing a repo and cancelling a user account?
Consider a separate thought experiment in which the IETF is running is own Gitlab, and hosting the repo for the "blockchain Tornado WG". Then the IETF receives a nice request from law enforcement. What happens?
-- Christian Huitema
