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On a meta note, I'm getting more and more agitated by these blatantly false, hyped up titles by respectable outlets. I hope that one day we as a society will fr
by air7 5y ago
On a meta note, I'm getting more and more agitated by these blatantly false, hyped up titles by respectable outlets. I hope that one day we as a society will frown upon this practice so much that all but the most tabloidy writters would be ashamed to use it.
Perhaps we on HN need to start
this by changing such submission titles, or marking them as misleading. There's a bit of this already in the form of comments. I've made a habit of checking them out before even clicking the article for this exact reason.
- tinus_hn 5y ago> ApPrOxImAtElY 40 PeRcEnT oF MoBiLe PhOnEs MaY bE cOmPrOmIsEd! Everybody run around in panic!
- civilized 5y agoFrankly, I saw ieee.org and I decided to click to the comments first rather than the article, because IEEE is unfortunately not trustworthy or respectable. I probably would have clicked through if it was krebsonsecurity or some other security research team's blog.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWhat a world we are living in. IEEE isn't trustworthy (and I agree), while some personal love projects are (I also agree here). IEEE used to be the accountability termination for an entire set of professions. Or, well, they still are. They are on the position where they just can't be wrong. They shouldn't wander on low-credibility activities.