jamesd@echeque.com[SMTP:jamesd@echeque.com] wrote:
I am unable to reconcile Black Unicorn's recent post, where he denounces almost the entire cypherpunk program as illegal by current legal standards and a manifestation of foolish ignorance of the law and obstinate refusal to take his wise advice, with the conjecture that Black Unicorn is aware of current recommended best practice in record keeping.
I've mostly been staying out of this stormy little teacup, but I'll concur that BU is overreaching himself. When he starts to claim that writing security software to best industry practices - erasing sensitive data as soon as it's need has passed, clearing disks and buffers, etc - all practices mandated for meeting certain government FIPS levels, and widely documented as standard - when he claims that writing programs correctly could get me in trouble - then it's time to downgrade my estimates of his knowledge and expertise.
Peter Trei
You guys are acting like Uni said, "THOU SHALT NOT WRITE CODE." Put down your pungi sticks. ~Aimee