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Please will a mod rename the title? The blog post explicitly says (at the bottom) that we don't know if this is the Black Hat talk that got cancelled early.
by infinity0 12y ago
Please will a mod rename the title? The blog post explicitly says (at the bottom) that we don't know if this is the Black Hat talk that got cancelled early.
- mike-cardwell 12y agoWhilst they do say that they don't know, they do also say that it "seems likely", and provide some fairly convincing evidence for that reasoning. But yes, the title doesn't quite reflect that.
- tptacek 12y agoThis title made me think, "wow, the Tor team is usually pretty on-the-ball, did they really write a sentence that started with 'Black Hat researchers', as if that was a thing?" It's a truly bad title; it editorializes, it's contradicted by the article ("maybe" is not "affirmatively"), and it confuses its subjects with the venue they happen to present at (think about how nonsensical "ACM researchers do X" or "USENIX researchers do Y" sounds).
- makomk 12y agoSomeone posted the same article with the original title on HN earlier and it sank without a trace, whereas this one seems to have stuck. Apparently it's a pretty good title from that perspective.
- tptacek 12y agoYeah. Stupid honesty. Who needs it?
- psykovsky 12y agoYou could use some yourself. And maybe some altruism to go with it...
- DanBC 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107273 which goes to https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2014-July/000094.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2014-Jul...
- dang 12y ago> Apparently it's a pretty good title from that perspective. There's a lot of randomness in which stories get uptake and when.
- scott_s 12y agoWe need to put that on a tshirt.
- dang 12y agoYes. The submitted title ("Black Hat researchers actively attack Tor users") violated the HN guidelines.