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

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

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:02:36AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) [050305 09:00]:
> > 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.
> 
> The information is feed to the BXA, not to the NSA. But even worse for
> you, much more detailed information is feeded to me every day - and I
> really read them even.

So what ? You are one of us, and not a potentially hostile outside agency.

Friendly,

Sven Luther