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>News.YC community is being much kinder towards Apple than it acted towards Dropbox for identical security bugs My old HN account got shaddowbanned after I tal
by cbs 15y ago
>News.YC community is being much kinder towards Apple than it acted towards Dropbox for identical security bugs
My old HN account got shaddowbanned after I talked shit about Dropbox when that happened. The post got a big number of points (more than anything else I had ever posted) and sparked interesting discussion, but I now know better than to question the Hacker News community's Sacred Cows.
>or ranting how this lapse is unforgivable.
I ranted against Dropbox because of the amount of people downplaying the severity, I'm not seeing that with this OS X issue (yet?). With the dropbox password thing, I saw a frequent argument, also used in their encryption scandal, one that really pissed me off. People were defending them with what boiled down to "you're stupid for expecting them to provide any level of service, as reasonable as it may be, unless their underlying tech doesn't force them to provide it".