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In a world where Stuxnet exists and Gawker might not, a date field in a dating site database should probably be taken with a shovel of salt though right?
by justsee 16y ago
In a world where Stuxnet exists and Gawker might not, a date field in a dating site database should probably be taken with a shovel of salt though right?
- hugh3 16y agoPerhaps, but it's many orders of magnitude more effort than you'd expect from a fake joke profile.
- justsee 16y agoI'd disagree, and state that it's exactly the sort of effort you'd expect if you were to assume sophisticated character assasination is the order of the day. The alternative is to assume that Assange did create a public profile (when many are private), completed numerous dating site 'tests' (backed by what many HN people would consider are very unsophisticated algorithms), and left it on display for 5 years, undetected until now. I'm inclined to eliminate the alternative as impossible.