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Not LARP. I think the canonical term is cargo cult. Although pretty offensive, at least the term clearly signals that the intent is valid, as much as the metho
by kubanczyk 7y ago
Not LARP. I think the canonical term is cargo cult.
Although pretty offensive, at least the term clearly signals that the intent is valid, as much as the methods aren't.
- tptacek 7y agoThe point of the comparison is that people are carelessly doing things that would ordinarily be hazardous, but aren't, because the stakes aren't real for them. They're then actively recommending those same reckless things to people for whom the stakes are very real. How you know the stakes aren't the same is that technologists by all outward appearances care more about ergonomics than security (and, indeed, their own idiosyncratic ergonomics, like "federation" and "works with email clients nobody else uses"). If the stakes for nerds were real, nobody would be fucking around with broken crypto. But they're LARPing.