Using the terminology of your link, tptacek is not "slightly more than unsophisticated" wrt security. Dismissive, sure, but "middlebrow" it is not. I like that

Using the terminology of your link, tptacek is not "slightly more than unsophisticated" wrt security. Dismissive, sure, but "middlebrow" it is not. I like that term, and I don't want it to turn into a generic, meaningless slap like "fascist" or something. And it's worth taking seriously any comment about security on HN when we're lucky enough to get one by an expert, whether it's tptacek, moxie, cperciva, the professor who goes by his initials (whose name escapes me atm), and probably others.