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Dupe (2002!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859581 With no context, I don't know why this is front page n

• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  I think a Microsoft coder recently came clean about some pretty funky stuff from the 90s and 00's. Hope I didn't hallucinate that.
  • ranting-moth 3y ago
    Link?
    • qingcharles 3y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkBAl84PJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkBAl84PJs
      • ranting-moth 3y ago
        Thanks!
  • EvanAnderson 3y ago
    I feel like you might be talking about Dave Plummer: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage He recently have a good talk at VCF, too: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_5syuWUh0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_5syuWUh0
• baby 3y ago
  Are you asking what reposts are?
  • ollemasle 3y ago
    Adding the date in the HN title would be better (it is not present in the article)
  • spzb 3y ago
    No. I'm pointing out that (a) it's not marked as being from 2002 and someone would therefore assume it was some newly discovered backdoor and (b) there's no context or commentary as to why it is relevant in 2023. Also, on closer inspection the story is from 1997 https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1 https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1
    • boffinAudio 3y ago
      I'd wager that its still relevant today because the NSA is still the worlds greatest wholesale violator of human rights, at massive scale, and literally nothing effective has been done about this situation - we are still tolerating this repression, because we don't see it and simply don't care enough about the human rights violations, as a people, to reign in this out of control agency. Bringing these articles to light is of great utility to those of us who do not consider the NSA state of affairs to be, in any way, tolerable.
      • acdha 3y ago
        > the NSA is still the worlds greatest wholesale violator of human rights, at massive scale, and literally nothing effective has been done about this situation - we are still tolerating this repression I don’t approve of their actions but turning the hyperbole up to 11 doesn’t help. There are millions of people in China who’d love to be only that repressed, for example.
        • boffinAudio 3y ago
          You can always rely on an American to bust out the China hate train when challenged on the facts of their own empires crimes .. Did you miss the fact that the NSA is literally violating the human rights of billions of people (including the Chinese), while China in the meantime has brought a billion people out of poverty conditions into their new middle class? >There are millions of people in China who’d love to be only that repressed, for example I seriously doubt you understand the nature of this fallacy. Meanwhile, how many families live under a broken bridge in the USA, just because Mom got cancer? Those 1,000 black-ops CIA sites around the world - you know for sure what they are being used for, eh? No torture? Seriously, get a grip. The moral authority you claim is a fallacy.
• dredmorbius 3y ago
  This would be a repost rather than a dupe. HN considers dupes to be stories with significant discussion repeated within a year. (Items with little or no discussion can be resubmitted a few times.) Stories reshared after a year are reposts, and are perfectly fine, though its appreciated to have the item's original publication year included in the title. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312416> <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html>
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