Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:33:05
Message-Id: 20150511183238.65140654@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, 11 May 2015 17:20:01 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 11 May 2015 18:17:10 +0200
5 > Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
6 > > You should probably think about the difference between public code
7 > > being mirrored at github and giving some big company access to
8 > > private emails.
9 >
10 > Like your phone company, ISP, and national intelligence agencies?
11
12 I think you know the answer for those...
13
14 And even with clear text emails going through them, unless
15 they've managed to secretly obtain decades of cryptography advances,
16 they can't know e.g. what I do actually read and even less how much time
17 I spend reading it (and probably dozens of others statistics I can't
18 even imagine), which correlation is actually much more valuable than
19 the raw data itself.