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Remarkably, it was less than 30 minutes before some troll posted a comment on Schneier's post, trying to change the topic from Paul Manafort by ranting about Hi

Remarkably, it was less than 30 minutes before some troll posted a comment on Schneier's post, trying to change the topic from Paul Manafort by ranting about Hillary Clinton's irrelevant misdeeds.

wand3r 9y ago
While that was a wildly off topic flamebait troll, if you boil down the facts of that post I agree. Of the emails I did read, there was some scandolous stuff. She did (or someone did) delete the emails. She also used a non-secure & unsupported device. I don't know about the trolls claim about several or more "lost" devices. So while it was off topic and pbvious trolling, Hillary was (in my eyes) doing some nefarious shit. So was Manafort, Trump and many many others. There is scumbaggery widespread accross the isle.
- lern_too_spel 9y ago
  Just like the secretary of state before her and the secretary of state before her and pretty much the entire current administration. Was it stupid? Yes. Should she be locked up? Only if you lock up everybody else. The whole thing was a nothingburger trumped up because she, like Obama, was too scandal-free; and the press needed something to talk about to keep stories "balanced" when her opponent had a new scandal every day.
  - bsder 9y ago
    Stop. I suspect you are replying to a shill or troll.
slashink 9y ago
I also found this very weird. Correct me if i'm wrong but while this blog seems creditable and by a good author it isn't "huge" in any sense which makes it even more confusing that someone shows up that fast to comment on topics relating to Manafort and Gates. Comment is deleted now sadly but it basically stated that "the US needs to investigate HILLARIOUS CLINTON" etc etc, completely unrelated to the content of the article.
- IncRnd 9y ago
  Schneier's blog is a regularly visited blog for many in the security space. With HN linking to a page on this blog, it's very possibl that page will have uncorrelated comments that are not security related.
  - bsder 9y ago
    And given the prevalence of Russians associated with the government in the security space (to be fair--a lot of security people are associated with their own governments), I suspect that it has a tight feedback loop with the troll factories.

Remarkably, it was less than 30 minutes before some troll posted a comment on Schneier's post, trying to change the topic from Paul Manafort by ranting about Hillary Clinton's irrelevant misdeeds.

wand3r 9y ago

While that was a wildly off topic flamebait troll, if you boil down the facts of that post I agree. Of the emails I did read, there was some scandolous stuff. She did (or someone did) delete the emails. She also used a non-secure & unsupported device. I don't know about the trolls claim about several or more "lost" devices. So while it was off topic and pbvious trolling, Hillary was (in my eyes) doing some nefarious shit. So was Manafort, Trump and many many others. There is scumbaggery widespread accross the isle.

lern_too_spel 9y ago
Just like the secretary of state before her and the secretary of state before her and pretty much the entire current administration. Was it stupid? Yes. Should she be locked up? Only if you lock up everybody else. The whole thing was a nothingburger trumped up because she, like Obama, was too scandal-free; and the press needed something to talk about to keep stories "balanced" when her opponent had a new scandal every day.
- bsder 9y ago
  Stop. I suspect you are replying to a shill or troll.

slashink 9y ago

I also found this very weird. Correct me if i'm wrong but while this blog seems creditable and by a good author it isn't "huge" in any sense which makes it even more confusing that someone shows up that fast to comment on topics relating to Manafort and Gates. Comment is deleted now sadly but it basically stated that "the US needs to investigate HILLARIOUS CLINTON" etc etc, completely unrelated to the content of the article.

IncRnd 9y ago
Schneier's blog is a regularly visited blog for many in the security space. With HN linking to a page on this blog, it's very possibl that page will have uncorrelated comments that are not security related.
- bsder 9y ago
  And given the prevalence of Russians associated with the government in the security space (to be fair--a lot of security people are associated with their own governments), I suspect that it has a tight feedback loop with the troll factories.