It is odd that Theo T'so, who resisted introducing backdoors into /dev/random, was the first one targeted by the code of conduct. The allegations made against him are ludicrous. Smells like intelligence agencies using radicalized useful idiots to "take out" vigilant contributors, so they can get their backdoors through. It's worth keeping an eye on these areas of the kernel.
What do you mean? There's tweets in the article targeting him using the CoC. I don't think anyone would dispute he wanted to use multiple entropy sources. What are you disputing?
What's there to investigate? What's more likely, that people obsessed with social justice latched onto a story about a guy who gave a clinical discussion about rape statistics [1], alleging him to be a rape apologist, or that there's a conspiracy by the US government to smear Linux contributors who don't like backdoors?
They're not mutually exclusive, but someone attempting to connect the two will have to provide some evidence. So far, I've not seen any from anyone.
I mean, how exactly would this theory work? Intel/Microsoft/FBI/NSA is paying or fomenting "SJW trolls" to cause havoc and slander anyone who gets in their way of implementing a potential backdoor? What'll happen when they're up against cryptography contributors who are super progressive or have a "clean record"?
To me this seems way more likely to be just typical social media outcry and hyperbole with nothing nefarious underneath it. And in this instance, it just happens to have affected someone involved with Linux cryptography.
