This IS about GD - a proposal on dealing with the problem
David Shaw
dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Mon Sep 12 04:42:05 CEST 2005
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:58:57PM -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> > It might be useful to tone down the rage here. PGP isn't producing
> > toxic waste. They're producing small packets of binary data. Nobody
> > is actually being poisoned and dying here. Extra signatures on keys
> > do not actually harm anyone, despite all the hysterics that they seem
> > to cause. At best, this is an aesthetic problem.
>
> The keyservers are the individuals being poisoned. It's a heavy metal
> poison. In general, heavy metal poisons are dangerous because they
> accumulate in the tissues of the affected individual and aren't
> naturally cleaned and purged. Also, like the poisoning of many heavy
> metals, this onem, if left to accumulate, will cause brain dysfunction
> in the infected individuals.
There are so many levels of wrong here that I am actually struck
utterly silent. Congratulations. I'm leaving the thread. I cannot
answer without somehow falsely implying that there is any signal in
the noise.
David
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