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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This just seems like some newbie programmer was like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if"..
by makmanalp 13y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
This just seems like some newbie programmer was like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if"... and built themselves a weekend project that they released on the site.
Obviously it's terrible for a site that sells SSL stuff, but concluding that this is the NSA is pretty hugely premature.
edit: Duh, didn't pick up on the sarcasm. In my defense, the parent text was way more vague at the time. :)
- floobynewb 13y agoTo be fair, I'm pretty sure he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But point well made. Whenever this point comes up I think of a scene from 'the cube', is it a massive conspiracy or utter incompetence combined with some kind emergent process?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoOr likely the NSA firmly has their tongue in their cheek teasing and scaring us because they can.