[jqm]

"It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Linux Community", and calls it an "extremist forum"."

WTF? I guess I am on a list. Who knew being an extremist was so easy?

[kps]

No, it doesn't say that Linux Journal itself is an ‘extremist forum’. It says that TAILs is “advocated by extremists on extremist forums”, and includes Linux Journal as a source of information about TAILs, neither of which seem surprising.

[jqm]

Yes it says exactly that. Thus the quotes "" in my post.

4'th bullet point from the top in case you wish to check again.

[kps]

The article, which presumably was written by the authors on its byline rather than by the NSA, says that. The actual config file, linked from the article, at http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt says:

  /*
  These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic
  Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by
  extremists on extremist forums.
  */

Linux Journal is listed there, as a ‘website relating to TAILS’, not as an ‘extremist forum’.

Journalists gotta journalize.

[reuven]

I write for Linux Journal. Imagine how I feel! I had no idea that I was participating in subversive activities.

[cottonseed]

Proud?

[reuven]

I'm certainly proud to be associated with LJ, and to be writing for them.

I'm also willing to believe that hackers who want to use encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies use and read about open-source technologies. Although my guess is that this includes nearly all serious security researchers, experts, and implementers.

That said, to claim that people who read LJ are extremists, or that the magazine is something of an "extremist forum," misses the mark in so many ways.