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bringen
2y ago
Your second link is worth reading again, seems it has had some rather concerning updates in the past day or two. A post from that thread, linked below, is currently highlighted on that site's front page with the title " An open le
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bringen
2y ago
Drew popped up on this thread yesterday saying that he'd "read most of the report". We can now ascertain that this was a lie and an attempt to mislead, because it's clear from the accumulation of evidence that he authore
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bringen
2y ago
Additional evidence has been uncovered linking Drew to this report, from Certificate Transparency data. A search for all subdomains of drewdevault.com reveals rms-draft-84eb252.drewdevault.com, which had certificates issued on 29th Septembe
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bringen
2y ago
Furthermore, while that same IP address (46.23.81.157) no longer hosts the stallman-report.org website, responding with "404 Site not found" if requested, it still has a certificate for stallman-report.org, which can be observed i
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bringen
2y ago
Interesting to note that the A record for stallman-report.org was, up until a few days ago, the same as the A record for drewdevault.com: https://i.ibb.co/RNBGcTJ/securitytrails-drewdevault.png https://i.ibb
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bringen
2y ago
Turn on "showdead" and look how many comments critical of the report have been flagged. That strongly indicates an organized suppression of dissenting views.
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bringen
2y ago
But he isn't enabling any of that. You're spinning a narrative that is fundamentally untrue.
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bringen
2y ago
I've skimmed through it and see nothing much to actually be concerned about. We all know Stallman is a rather strange, socially awkward man with some oddball views that go against the grain. A document berating him for being a weirdo,
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bringen
2y ago
And just like last time, the authors are trying to convince their supporters to manipulate the discussion on HN. https://mastodon.social/@report_press/113306313558293261 We can already see the influence of this in the
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bringen
2y ago
How curious to see that the authors of this character assassination are anonymous. I wonder if it's a cabal of closed-source proprietary software authors behind this. If this was being released 10-20 years ago, I'd suspect the inv