Stierlitz

> Why outsource your auth system?

To make it easy for the spooks to backdoor your clients systems?

> .. jwz dislikes Hacker News ..

Why, what's the back story?

"One of the concerns .. was the lack of insight into malicious digital (state sponsored) activity towards vital infrastructure."

Have these people ever given consideration to not connecting their vital infrastructure to the Internet. Instead using VPNs running on embedded hardware providing a .. virtual private network.

@kevin_thibedeau: "She signed a document agreeing to keep secrets. That only requires modest reading skills."

Perhaps, the leak and the subsequent outing was part of a deep-state plot to legitimize the assertion that Russia manipulated the 2016 United States election to get their man elected President.

> .. as I recall, she shared documents from her workplace that either had printer steganography ID codes embedded into them .. None of which Winner was aware of the existence at the time ..

An 'intelligence specialist' doesn't know about protecting the source, I don't think so ;]

I highly suspect that whole story, 'Reality Winner' was outed by some yellow dots in the printout.

"Things were this way because of Richard Stallman – but I view his influence on these things as negative rather than positive. He was a cause that forced these outcomes, rather than being supportive of the desires and needs of others. Rather than indulge in gossip or stories, I would like to jump to the idea that he was supposed to have been deplatformed in October 2019."

"In resigning from his position as president of the FSF, he certainly lost some of his ability to reach audiences. However, Richard still gives talks. The FSF continues to use his image and rhetoric in their own messaging and materials. They gave him time to speak at their annual conference in 2020. He maintains leadership in the GNU project and otherwise within the FSF sphere. The people who empowered him for so many years are still in charge."

"Richard, and the continued respect and space he is given, is not the only problem. It represents a bigger problem. Sexism and racism (among others) run rampant in the community. This happens because of bad actors and, more significantly, by the complacency of organizations, projects, and individuals afraid of losing contributors, respect, or funding."

"In a sector that has so much money and so many resources, women are still being paid less than men; we deny people opportunities to learn and grow in the name of immediate results; people who aren’t men, who aren’t white, are abused and harassed; people are mentally and emotionally taken advantage of, and we are coerced into burn out and giving up our lives for these companies and projects and we are paid for tolerating all of this by being told we’re doing a good job or making a difference."

"So how do we guard against this type of attack?"

Don't allow access to your 'secret' source code from the open Internet.

How to remember a password. Use the first and last letter of each word from a quotation, discarding two letter and single letter words.

aeshs fdsae meado rlele rdwhsp

"On Monday, workers announced the establishment of the Alphabet Workers Union" .. So now, as well as your manager telling you what to do, you'll have your Union Organizer telling you what to do. Neo-Sovietism with a coating of Wokism is coming to America.

> .. The WhatsApp server has no access to the client’s private keys ..

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> .. the UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services can no longer rely on ‘general warrants’ ..

обманывать ;]