It means that a project isn’t hosted on a country that is actively hostile towards the libre software movement. Privacy is dependent on the country, because e.g. the NSA may try to backdoor projects hosted in the US more than in other countries.
What has the US government actively done to harm FOSS? Last I knew they contributed to and maintained several high profile FOSS projects. The NSA maintains Ghidra and other US agencies fund and contribute to tor.
Also while I do agree that the NSA is more likely to approach US based organizations and US citizens to include back doors willingly it doesn’t stop them from attempting to covertly get back doors in place. Additionally let’s not pretend like the US 3 letter agencies don’t have agreements in place with their European counter parts to do cross border shenanigans. It’s known that they do.
It means that a project isn’t hosted on a country that is actively hostile towards the libre software movement. Privacy is dependent on the country, because e.g. the NSA may try to backdoor projects hosted in the US more than in other countries.
What has the US government actively done to harm FOSS? Last I knew they contributed to and maintained several high profile FOSS projects. The NSA maintains Ghidra and other US agencies fund and contribute to tor.
Also while I do agree that the NSA is more likely to approach US based organizations and US citizens to include back doors willingly it doesn’t stop them from attempting to covertly get back doors in place. Additionally let’s not pretend like the US 3 letter agencies don’t have agreements in place with their European counter parts to do cross border shenanigans. It’s known that they do.