Think first

A warning, with citations.

This database is, by design, a public, machine-readable list of people who hold the power and the values to change how the tech industry operates. That is also a precise description of a targeting list. We are not being dramatic; we are being historical:

• Microsoft studied, in writing, how to fight free software before most of us had broadband — the leaked memos are annotated at ESR's site as the Halloween Documents [1].
• The NSA's XKeyscore rules marked readers of Linux Journal as "extremists" and flagged visitors of Tor and Tails sites for extra surveillance — reported by Das Erste [2], confirmed by Linux Journal itself [3]. Reading about your operating system was enough.
• The NSA paid to weaken the cryptography you rely on — the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor, documented in the Bullrun reporting [4].
• They hunt the people who run the machines: “I hunt sys admins” [5] — targeted not for wrongdoing, but for access.

The philosophical case has been made better than we can make it: Stallman's How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? [6], Moglen's Snowden and the Future [7], the FSF's PRISM statement [8] and standing anti-surveillance campaign [9], and the GNU Project's running dossier of proprietary surveillance [10].

So, practically:

• Email is published in plaintext, forever. Scrapers will find it in minutes. Prefer the PGP fingerprint field — contact me, but encrypted.
• The "classified" fields (real name, location, employer, phone) exist as satire. Fill them with beautiful lies or not at all? We are Linux users; we are not dumb lol.
• Never put another person's real information in this repository. The joke is lying about yourself. Doxxing gets a PR closed and a name remembered.
• Coining an enemy credits you publicly, forever, in a JSON file with your name on it. Wear it proudly or don't coin.
• The NSA/Palantir might fork this repo. Be careful.

Sources checked alive 2026-06-10. [1] and [7] are plain-HTTP because their TLS certificates are broken, which is either ironic or fitting — we report, you decide.