From the keyboard of: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Personally I don't rule out MIT internecine warfare and personal grudges. University politics can get as dirty as the real thing at times, but I think we can rule out *real* politics in this.
"University politics is so vicious simply because there is so little at stake." <-- reasonable accurate misquote University politics are normally much dirtier than the real thing, and much harder to stay out of if you spend more than 4 years at an institution. The battles over office space alone can make smear campaigns via TV ads in a congressional race look like a friendly debate. Still, it seems from the outside that there wasn't much toe-stepping going on at MIT with regard to their PGP release. That's nice to see. Perhaps, for once, the internal politics were calmer than the external storm of paranoia? :-) Richard