Post #3539911
2026-07-02 18:32 UTC
@djb@mastodon.cr.yp.to @letoams@defcon.social Giving people template text and encouraging them to take a stand where they have never participated before is not participation.
I've noticed that this kind of blind literalism is often seen in untrained people playing lawyer, or perhaps US Supreme Court justices. Also not uncommon with people "on the spectrum."
I do not think you are stupid, nor are you a Justice and I am not qualified to diagnose. Therefore, I still believe you are therefore just acting in bad faith to get what you want, no matter how justified you think the end result is.
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@djb@mastodon.cr.yp.to 2026-07-02 18:41
@rsalz@ioc.exchange @letoams@defcon.social Did you complain when NSA overtly waved around money to pressure its "vendors" to support this draft? Did you complain when they suddenly called a new vote and flooded the room with votes, such as the vote from NSA's Mike Jenkins, his first-ever TLS list message? Explicitly in response to that, I called for volunteers to speak up in the public interest. Suddenly you're issuing one-sided complaints and inventing new IETF rules to retroactively disenfranchise opponents.