Yasha Levine likes to spin these grand conspiracies but comes off as completely clueless, technically (not sure if deliberate but it doesn't really matter). Com

Yasha Levine likes to spin these grand conspiracies but comes off as completely clueless, technically (not sure if deliberate but it doesn't really matter). Completely absent from his work are any sort of technical advisors or rigorous technical writing. Result being that less than _1_ minute of looking into his latest "scoop" from someone with a technical background is enough to see through Yasha's bullshit. The code of TOR is not only there for everyone to examine, the incentives are so big that serious protocol issues would have come to the surface many times over, esp taking the number of security experts who are constantly looking there (meaning this goes way beyond "many eyes => bugs are shallow"). I used to read him when he was at Exile (together with Taibbi and Mark Ames), he was good for a few laughs (and Exile was full of black humor and sarcastic writing). At some point, he started seeing himself as a serious journalist and hilarity ensued. Stick to being a clown Yasha!