Re:Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then ...
by rdl on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:09AM
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There are a lot of great (personally) people doing great work, even in IT/security/digital liberty. It's just that the more obstreperous ones stick out in your mind.
Linus Torvalds is pretty universally regarded as a nice person, and very important to open source. Same with a lot of the earlier Bell Labs UNIX people, and computer scientists like Knuth, Ritchie, etc.
Within the startup world, it's even easier -- most of the well respected early angel investors, founders, etc. are decent people.
Every EFF employee that I've spent time with has been great, and a lot of them (Seth Schoen; Wendy Seltzer come to mind) are really important. Same with Prof Zittrain, Lessig, etc.
Even in computer security -- Jon Callas, Bruce Schneier, Ian Goldberg, Hugh Daniels, John Gilmore, Ben and Adam Laurie, Nicko and Alex van Someren, etc.
Linus Torvalds is pretty universally regarded as a nice person, and very important to open source. Same with a lot of the earlier Bell Labs UNIX people, and computer scientists like Knuth, Ritchie, etc.
Within the startup world, it's even easier -- most of the well respected early angel investors, founders, etc. are decent people.
Every EFF employee that I've spent time with has been great, and a lot of them (Seth Schoen; Wendy Seltzer come to mind) are really important. Same with Prof Zittrain, Lessig, etc.
Even in computer security -- Jon Callas, Bruce Schneier, Ian Goldberg, Hugh Daniels, John Gilmore, Ben and Adam Laurie, Nicko and Alex van Someren, etc.