Hi Walter,
On 2013-10-09 21:53, Walter Parker wrote:
To answer your question about throwing the first stone. Your question
reads a bit like the "Are you a criminal/commie?" questions. Many
people would object to the question at the start because it implies
that the people being asked the question has done something wrong.
Watching the reactions to political debates shows that asking the
question can be enough to get a sizable amount of the audience to
think the answer is yes, even when no proof is ever given that
something happened.
Interesting what all kinds of different things you do interpret into my
question.
By my comprehension I just asked simple but important question and did
this quite straight-forwardly.
Then when the question was deleted, you demanded that pfSense take a
stand on it.
Yes. Censorship always raises questions.
Let me show you what it looks like from the other side:
Have you planned to overthrow the government? When will you show that
you are not plotting to kill your fellow country men?
It is a simple question, when will we here something from you? I just
ask because I want to be sure that you are not trying to kill me.
Well, your example neglects one important aspect: pfSense is a kind of
security software project. Asking it about it's level of security and
integrity is a question that such a project must stand, IMHO. It is like
asking a bank how safe my money is. Or asking Microsoft how good "Word"
is for writing letters; while asking me about if I plan to overthrow
some government or kill other people refers to nothing.
For the tool in question, pfSense, once you start questioning it,
there is no way to get the bottom without eithering trusting the
pfSense people (which means that the question is pointless because if
you trust them, asking them if they have violated your trust means
that you don't trust them) or getting an external validation (trusting
another group of people or doing the work yourself).
I guess for anybody related to computer security it is a must to
question anything anytime and take nothing for granted. You should
question everything any time and any player in this domain should accept
any questions any time, IMHO.
FYI, there is a long history on the Internet of people asking simple
"innocent " question, not to get actually answers, but to cause
trouble by causing the effect described at the beginning of my email
(these are called trolls).
What trouble do you refer to? I only read some aggressive/ snappy
answers which - frankly - I find pretty awkward reactions to my simple
question.
Regards
Thinker Rix
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