Randolph removed from this public email.
   The more primary source links for this controversy are
   at [1]https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2013-July/047140.ht
   ml
   and [2]https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2013-July/00223
   2.html .  If you click forward on the second link, which appears to
   have no replies, you can see Randolph continues discussing GoldBug in a
   different thread.
   I am _guessing_ that Randolph was either involved in developing
   GoldBug, or was trying to influence GoldBug's public appearance in some
   way.  It's hard to tell whether the expressions are intended to
   advertise GoldBug or make them appear sketchy.
   My first guess was that Randolph was a one-man team who did not speak
   English as their first language, and they were trying to advertise
   their work in ways they were familiar with, by pretending to be
   somebody else stumbling upon it.  I don't really know.
   The comments on the echo protocol make it sound a little bit like the
   bitmessage protocol.
   As always, the answers are in the source code, and it is open source.
   If it phones home it is bad, etc, if it does everything e2e it is good,
   etc.

References

   1. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2013-July/047140.html
   2. https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2013-July/002232.html