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I dont blame the parent for paranoia. NIST has been involved in standardizing protocol/algorithms with backdoors. It is not a controversary, it is documented. A

• pvg 4y ago
  It's not whether it's a controversy, it's that it's a generic, tropey and unsubstantive comment. 'X sux' is a bad comment even if X really sux.
  • t-3 4y ago
    "You're breaking the rules" is just as generic, tropey, and unsubstantive as any other low-effort comment, and continuing arguments to defend your derision is far more disruptive to the tone and flow of discussion. If you had just quietly downvoted, there would be little/no comment thread down here. P.S. Yes, I understand that I'm doing exactly the same thing, but I felt this should be said.
    • pvg 4y ago
      I'm doing exactly the same thing No, have at it, at the very bottom of the thread, hanging off a flagkilled comment is exactly where all this belongs and that is where we are, a safe little basement of meta. That's also what makes the irritating rule-complaints qualitatively different from gratuitously crap toplevel comments. Neither are good but one is way more not good than the other. just quietly To embrace an internet trope, Sir, this is a messageboard.