To explain a potential adversary, how crypto works or how he becomes a valueable asset for any given intelligence service without any given payment may not even attract people like me.
> how he becomes a valueable asset for any given intelligence
How who becomes a valuable asset? Unless I am misreading this somehow, I don't even know what you're trying to say.
> without any given payment may not even attract people like me
If you're saying that you have no interest in answering questions because there's no pay involved, then I can understand that position. But a huge part of what the Crypto SE lacks is a study influx of quality questions. And the flip side of not being paid to answer is that you don't have to pay to ask.
I suppose if you are a cryptographer, you have little incentive to spend time roaming the site, true. However, other Stack Exchange sites have a bunch of experts on them too (ignoring the Big Three, the Math SE is one such place, as well as essentially all of the other graduated sites) and they don't seem to mind not being paid. I agree it's not for everyone, though.
> how he becomes a valueable asset for any given intelligence
How who becomes a valuable asset? Unless I am misreading this somehow, I don't even know what you're trying to say.
> without any given payment may not even attract people like me
If you're saying that you have no interest in answering questions because there's no pay involved, then I can understand that position. But a huge part of what the Crypto SE lacks is a study influx of quality questions. And the flip side of not being paid to answer is that you don't have to pay to ask.
I suppose if you are a cryptographer, you have little incentive to spend time roaming the site, true. However, other Stack Exchange sites have a bunch of experts on them too (ignoring the Big Three, the Math SE is one such place, as well as essentially all of the other graduated sites) and they don't seem to mind not being paid. I agree it's not for everyone, though.