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Re: Github, sanctions, and the IETF

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Wed, 10 August 2022 20:18 UTC

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To: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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On 8/10/2022 12:21 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Hi, Tim,
>
> On 10/8/22 16:13, Tim Bray wrote:
>> It's actually an interesting new kind of thing. When somebody's doing 
>> something that law-enforcement considers wildly illegal and building 
>> their technology on a public open-source hoster, will this sort of 
>> enforcement become routine?  Um, maybe if you're doing something 
>> seriously sketchy, don't do it on GitHub or equivalent?
>
> Please consider some security tools or technologies, which at times 
> are considered illegal or embargoed, and redo the thought experiment...
>
> Aside, there's a difference, maybe, between removing a repo and 
> cancelling a user account? 

Consider a separate thought experiment in which the IETF is running is 
own Gitlab, and hosting the repo for the "blockchain Tornado WG". Then 
the IETF receives a nice request from law enforcement. What happens?

-- Christian Huitema

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