# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

* Participants discussed NSA surveillance of Tor users as reported in The Guardian, debating Bruce Schneier's security expertise compared to Sam Harris's positions on profiling, highlighting the community's focus on privacy technologies and security analysis.

* A substantive debate occurred around statistical profiling in security contexts, with arguments about whether statistical evidence justifies certain security measures versus concerns about biased data collection methods affecting the validity of such approaches.

* The channel demonstrated commitment to open access academic research through the use of paperbot, an automated tool that provides libgen.org links to paywalled papers, specifically sharing an IEEE paper on visualization techniques.

* Developers discussed improving paperbot's code quality through unit testing with mocked data, specifically recommending Python's "mock" module or "mockito," showing the collaborative, open-source approach to tool development within the community.

* Progress was reported on fixing installation issues with BRL-CAD software, particularly addressing 64-bit installation problems and dependency issues with tcl.dll and MSVCR100.dll files, as well as improving Python architecture detection.

* Work on Python bindings for BRL-CAD was mentioned, indicating efforts to make this established open-source solid modeling system more accessible to Python programmers, potentially expanding its use in the transhumanist/maker community.

* A request was made for high-quality CAD models (specifically fighter jets and Gundam models) to enhance documentation and demonstrate BRL-CAD/Python integration capabilities.