Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > I have some real trouble with the fact that all the work i do for debian is
> > reported to the US secret services or whatever by the ftp-masters and our
> > archive handling services, and i certainly did *NOT* agree to this being the
> > case.
> 
> What are you talking about?  Debian prohibits anonymous developers,
> always has; for the longest time this was the only real restriction on
> joining Debian: you had to find a few other Debian developers to
> verify you had a real ID.

Yep, but there is a difference between the information being available, and it
being actively feeded to the NSA or whoever. And it is especially bothering if
this cause undue delay in our normal activities, like aj is saying it is.

Furthermore, sure there are no anonymous debian developer, but still the real
identity is known only to debian, so theoretically we could hide it from the
outside if we wanted.

Friendly,

Sven Luther