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Yeah, that’s definitely not what we were doing buddy. Keep the politics out of this please. We don’t accept any customer money either for this usage. Zero. Tho

by SEJeff 3y ago

Yeah, that’s definitely not what we were doing buddy. Keep the politics out of this please. We don’t accept any customer money either for this usage. Zero. Those nodes secured the network and were also used for analysis of hacks and forensic incident response. We work a lot with the US FBI btw. We’re trying to prevent literally all the things you just mentioned, so no need to be jerk here buddy.

DonHopkins 3y ago
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lutoma 3y ago
> Keep the politics out of this please Apart from how nonsensical it is to want to "keep politics" out of inherently political discussions: Your last comments on hacker news were about US trade policy, Navalny's treatment by Russia and the development of fringe political groups in the EU.
- SEJeff 3y ago
  The conversation was not about views on blockchain. The conversion was hetzner decided a client running several hundred nodes was suddenly running afoul of the ToS after running happily almost four years and they cut off all access without any notification. They then updated their ToS to clarify this was not allowed, but they happily took our money for four years and we built out a fair bit of tooling on this. We do DFIR and security. Do you even know anything about digital forensics? It’s not a “bad” thing to investigate hacks and work with law enforcement to recover funds. It’s necessary as not everyone is a crook or thief. So yes, I think it’s entirely reasonable to keep conversations on hacker news on topic and not inject politics where the conversation is not about politics. Obviously the cases you mentioned are inherently about politics so that’s a nice straw man you beat up there. Congratulations sir.