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Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD? (2010)
- Wingman4l7 13y agoBetteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- nsmartt 13y agoThe principle behind the Betteridge's law of headlines is sound. It's definitely reasonable to exercise skepticism when a journalist is unable to support a claim with evidence. However, it's absurd to suggest that a failure to find evidence means that any assertion made by the piece is bogus. If a journalist publishes a story titled "Do police investigate crime?", the answer is obviously wouldn't be "no." I don't think mentioning the law itself adds much to the conversation—certainly not the "can be answered by the word no" part.