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Sadly, it is impossible nowadays to get rid of useless cruft if it has “Secure” in its name.

By shining the laser through the window at microphones inside smart speakers, tablets, or phones, a far away attacker can remotely send inaudible and potentially invisible commands which are then acted upon by Alexa, Portal, Google assistant or Siri.

Harmful behaviour comes in many forms. Some people, for example, say outright that they don't want women involved in free software development. Others attack gay, lesbian, trans, queer, black, old, young, Christian, Muslim, atheist, any other other group of people identified by whatever attribute the attacker happens to dislike. Yet others are more subtle, not attacking directly, but not giving people in the group they dislike the same chance to participate, learn, grow, and generally be the best person they can be in the context of free software development.

This doesn't just harm the groups of people being targeted. It harms others, who see it happen, and think they might be targeted too, later, maybe for some other reason. It harms reaching the vision of software freedom, because it shoves large parts of humanity outside the software freedom movement, robbing the movement from many voices and much effort. This makes it harder to achieve the vision.

Excluding people from the movement for irrelevant reasons also harms humanity in general. It propagates the hate, hurt, and harm that is emblematic of life and politics around the world. While the software freedom movement can't solve all of those problems, we can and should at least not make it worse.