I really don't want to start irrelevant discussions in this thread, but if you think an extrajudicial secret service can't lean on any open source developer regardless of the country and your side relative to it, please think again. "This can't happen here" is not a helpful attitude, and also you are on the slippery slope here. Paranoia can disintegrate the community far quicker than any actual spooks. Without a certain amount of trust (backed by reputation and verification) nothing useful could be possibly done.
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I really don't want to start irrelevant discussions in this thread, but if you think an extrajudicial secret service can't lean on any open source developer regardless of the country and your side relative to it, please think again. "This can't happen here" is not a helpful attitude, and also you are on the slippery slope here. Paranoia can disintegrate the community far quicker than any actual spooks. Without a certain amount of trust (backed by reputation and verification) nothing useful could be possibly done.