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What about the HAM radio moon bounces? Were they all government connected?
http://www.k4lrg.org/Projects/K4MSG_EME/
The software they're pushing was programmed by Joseph Taylor, a hireling who works at several government funded observatories.
First of all, I'm not sure that I'd refer to a Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist as "a hireling".
Secondly, so what? Did the government tell Taylor to write the HAM radio software?
Thirdly, the WSJT protocol software is open source, so everyone is free to examine, or even contribute to, the source code to see for themselves if the protocol does what it claims.
Just because it's open source, it doesn't make it impervious. As I recall it was recently leaked by the Snowden documents that the NSA snuck code into public cryptographic standards by using highly complex and indecipherable advanced mathematics which only few could understand, and written in an inconvenient way. The random number generator produced keys which seemed random but were actually subtly not. This allowed the NSA, knowing how the number was tainted, to calculate the private key from a public key.
Since it was open source, everyone made the same literal justification you made in defense of legitimacy, the software passed several "code reviews," and the world proceeded to use it, basically giving the NSA free reign to access the most sensitive computers and networks as they pleased, without needing to hack anything.
The mere fact that this software was produced by someone receiving checks from the government invalidates its use as a tool for demonstrating the honesty of the government.