The Big Leagues

Posted Oct 17, 2014 6:00 UTC (Fri) by Garak (guest, #99377)
In reply to: The Big Leagues by Garak
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

And furthering both my thesis, and my prior decision to cut myself off from commenting on lwn, I feel the need to throw in another bottom line-

Kids (and adults, but this is mostly a message to the young)- if you want to have a future with a statistically low number of death threats against you personally, *do not under any circumstances* try to be an FOSS developer developing software with the kinds of security requirements that Torvalds and Poettering are. Really. Stay the hell away from places like the tor/tails development communities, and to a lesser, but not much extent, mainstream initsystem and kernel development. If you get good at it, and refuse to bend to pressure from special interest groups, you will be targeted. And if you aren't what the FBI considers a "team player", I wouldn't count on them to defend you from harm. Ditto for the NSA, CIA, Google, Facebook, and Blackwater.