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Articles like this are always a struggle between my feeling that this kind of abuse is horrible and my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts

by scythe 3y ago

Articles like this are always a struggle between my feeling that this kind of abuse is horrible and my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts of grievances.

cupofjoakim 3y ago
For better of for worse, the title of this site is "Hacker News" - and hackers tend to have strong feelings about privacy issues like this. I personally appreciate articles like this being posted, as they don't _really_ feel political and both lefties and righties can agree that freedom of speech and journalism is important. Except the extremists of course, as I'm sure I will be made aware of in any replies to this comment.
- pixl97 3y ago
  Hell, because this kind of stuff bleeds over into hackers quite often. Hacker finds exploit in major software and reports thing. Company gets really mad at hacker and wants them thrown in jail. Hacker goes to media to report on this. Company calls in state to threaten hacker and journalist with jail time for even daring to talk about the faults in their software "To even mention it enables criminals and terrorists"
- drewcoo 3y ago
  > agree that freedom of speech and journalism is important. Except the extremists of course We "extremists" are more likely to value free speech. We're the ones most often targeted to have it removed.
dfxm12 3y ago
my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts of grievances Any particular reason why?
- scythe 3y ago
  As you can see it was flagged off the front page (not by me) and it involves people with controversial opinions. So this tends to invite people who participate for the wrong reasons. At the time I wrote that comment, the only other post in the thread was focused on the author's credentials and not the actual subject. In any case, I did hear about it here first. So there's some value in that.
megous 3y ago
It's still a bit more interesting to read "I got my devices stolen by the state" than 100th repetition of "Giggle blocked my account and I don't bother having backups" which is allowed here ad nauseam.
blitzar 3y ago
There are technical / practical solutions to this sort of thing, that journalists to CEOs should be doing. Specifically you should not have any information stored on any devices when transiting through any airport anywhere in the world.

by scythe 3y ago

Articles like this are always a struggle between my feeling that this kind of abuse is horrible and my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts of grievances.

cupofjoakim 3y ago

For better of for worse, the title of this site is "Hacker News" - and hackers tend to have strong feelings about privacy issues like this. I personally appreciate articles like this being posted, as they don't _really_ feel political and both lefties and righties can agree that freedom of speech and journalism is important. Except the extremists of course, as I'm sure I will be made aware of in any replies to this comment.

pixl97 3y ago
Hell, because this kind of stuff bleeds over into hackers quite often. Hacker finds exploit in major software and reports thing. Company gets really mad at hacker and wants them thrown in jail. Hacker goes to media to report on this. Company calls in state to threaten hacker and journalist with jail time for even daring to talk about the faults in their software "To even mention it enables criminals and terrorists"
drewcoo 3y ago
> agree that freedom of speech and journalism is important. Except the extremists of course We "extremists" are more likely to value free speech. We're the ones most often targeted to have it removed.

dfxm12 3y ago

my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts of grievances Any particular reason why?

scythe 3y ago
As you can see it was flagged off the front page (not by me) and it involves people with controversial opinions. So this tends to invite people who participate for the wrong reasons. At the time I wrote that comment, the only other post in the thread was focused on the author's credentials and not the actual subject. In any case, I did hear about it here first. So there's some value in that.

megous 3y ago

It's still a bit more interesting to read "I got my devices stolen by the state" than 100th repetition of "Giggle blocked my account and I don't bother having backups" which is allowed here ad nauseam.

blitzar 3y ago

There are technical / practical solutions to this sort of thing, that journalists to CEOs should be doing. Specifically you should not have any information stored on any devices when transiting through any airport anywhere in the world.