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Filippo Valsorda seems to be happy to ignore the fact that NIST already let an NSA backdoor in, as recently as 2014: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG ht

Filippo Valsorda seems to be happy to ignore the fact that NIST already let an NSA backdoor in, as recently as 2014: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG is he really just going to ignore something from 8 years ago?

oittaa 4y ago
- tptacek 4y ago
  First, last I checked, Filippo does not in fact work at Google. Second: the guidelines on this site forbid you to write comments like this; in fact, this pattern of comments is literally the most frequent source of moderator admonitions on HN. Filippo hardly needs me to defend his reputation, but, as a service to HN and to you in particular, I'd want to raise your awareness of the risk of beclowning yourself by suggesting that he, of all people, is somehow compromised.
  - oittaa 4y ago
    - tptacek 4y ago
      It's funny how you think it's a mic drop that you didn't bother to check basic facts before attempting to defame someone by name, anonymous commenter. I just told you this was a dumb hill to die on, but I can't stop you from commenting like this.
- throwaway654329 4y ago
throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation. As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a victim, irony of irony) before he took the job with them. As Upton Sinclair remarked: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Joining Google after Snowden revealed PRISM and BULLRUN, as well as MUSCULAR, is almost too rich to believe, Meanwhile he asserts and dismisses Bernstein as a conspiracy theorist. It’s a classic bad faith ad-hominem coincidence theory.
stefantalpalaru 4y ago

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Filippo Valsorda seems to be happy to ignore the fact that NIST already let an NSA backdoor in, as recently as 2014: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG ht

by svnpenn 4y ago

oittaa 4y ago
- tptacek 4y ago
  First, last I checked, Filippo does not in fact work at Google. Second: the guidelines on this site forbid you to write comments like this; in fact, this pattern of comments is literally the most frequent source of moderator admonitions on HN. Filippo hardly needs me to defend his reputation, but, as a service to HN and to you in particular, I'd want to raise your awareness of the risk of beclowning yourself by suggesting that he, of all people, is somehow compromised.
  - oittaa 4y ago
    - tptacek 4y ago
      It's funny how you think it's a mic drop that you didn't bother to check basic facts before attempting to defame someone by name, anonymous commenter. I just told you this was a dumb hill to die on, but I can't stop you from commenting like this.
- throwaway654329 4y ago
throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation. As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a victim, irony of irony) before he took the job with them. As Upton Sinclair remarked: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Joining Google after Snowden revealed PRISM and BULLRUN, as well as MUSCULAR, is almost too rich to believe, Meanwhile he asserts and dismisses Bernstein as a conspiracy theorist. It’s a classic bad faith ad-hominem coincidence theory.
stefantalpalaru 4y ago