From the guidelines: >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a s

From the guidelines: >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. So basically anything upvoted by this community is considered on topic since enough people deem it gratifying intellectual curiosity. Secondly, the insulting part is about how he snarkly listed Snowden alongside conspiracy theories. Like him or not, the risks he's taken to get this information out deserve him some level of repspect.