[OmniOS-discuss] Legal next steps

[Dan McDonald]

> On May 16, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Alexander Lesle <groups at tierarzt-mueller.de> wrote:
> 
> No NSA or U.S. laws pressure to code a backdoor for them.

As someone who worked in the shadow of such a threat for many years (Building IPsec both at NRL, and pre-OpenSolaris Sun), the open-source nature of OmniOS mitigates (at least partially) explicit pressure as a concern.  Open-source code has a strong (albeit not fully court-tested) 1st amendment defense -- see here:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

There may be good reasons to have an outside-the-US foundation, but backdoor concerns is not one of them.

Dan

p.s. I have good 90s-crypto-wars stories.