You're misunderstanding this. I am referring to a diff I sent that is progressive.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175787736120985&w=2 Also by the way your em dash was messing up my email client, encoding conversion error. On Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:07:27 -0800 justina colmena ~biz <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think OpenBSD is communist or far-left. You obviously can't write > correct complete code while high on drugs, but at the same time, there are > too many European and Canadian drug dealers in the community. > > OpenBSD itself is openly published and free to use but the intent with the > use of strong cryptography is all about privacy and private property. The > concern of communism and universal state surveillance is the use of the > NSA-approved weak ciphers which have become standardized in the industry, > although that appears to be somewhat outside the scope of the OpenBSD project > itself. > > NSA at its two known locations of Ft. Meade, Maryland and Camp Williams, Utah > is focused very much on unwarranted domestic intelligence surveillance for > local law enforcement purposes within the United States, and in UK, Canada, > Australia and New Zealand as well, coincidentally all English speaking > nations, through the FVEY or "Five Eyes" intelligence surveillance and law > enforcement community treaty. James Bamford's descriptions apply. > > The emphasis on building up "local" law enforcement and excluding other > national level agencies such as FBI/DEA/RCMP etc. is because the petty > red-light district criminal cases typically brought against targeted > individuals with warrantless NSA surveillance intelligence don't make it in > federal court without proper warrants based upon probable cause with the > sworn testimony of witnesses. > > Then there are the child pornography and/or other white collar criminal > "indictments" etc., where the grand jury (if it was ever actually convened) > was never allowed to see the purported evidence or judge its appropriateness > — but somehow rank-and-file NSA employees are. > > Imperial Russian style crypto export controls and tariffs etc. > > On October 6, 2025 4:58:35 AM AKDT, Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > >It was only today that I learned about one of OpenBSD's goals > >which is to not be political. Such progressive changes are > >definitely not technical and now I've learned it doesn't > >make any sense under their goals. > > > >And to be clear, I am not out here to make OpenBSD some > >communist far-left project.
