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Sep 15, 2019

First thing, this is a great thread on the OSS model and the inherent risks from bad actors in this space. Very worth a read. Second, though is the point about

@Snowden

. It's a typical bias from programmers, but a particularly stark example of it.

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Sep 9, 2019

So sure, he's not a developer and isn't a highly technical privacy/security expert but he's trying to do good and he's one of the few people providing support to projects aiming to make things better. I see far more silly stuff in feeds of security engineers / researchers anyway.

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Chris Dupres

@blaktron

Sep 15, 2019

Here he calls Snowden "not highly technical" because he isnt a developer. Snowden was an enterprise infrastructure/storage guy and got a pretty sr gig while he was really young. He bypassed loads of "highly technical" NSA security on his way out the door. He is highly technical

Chris Dupres

@blaktron

Sep 15, 2019

Why this is so funny in this context is that the thread is a programmer talking about how he lost his infrastructure and update capabilities. From an infrastructure/storage perspective that makes me think he isnt highly technical. I doubt

@Snowden

would have ended up there.

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I personally don't see what's funny about people involved in an open source project stabbing it in the back. It's ignorant for you to suggest I should be managing absolutely everything myself without delegating to others. Do you think

@Snowden

doesn't have to rely on others?

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I think dealing with insider threats is a core part of enterprise security and it seems it wasnt done here. That's ok, nobody is perfect. It's funny because you are calling him not highly technical after making a rookie admin mistake.

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Yeah, nobody is perfect. Some clueless people like yourself make incredibly ignorant and naive claims on Twitter including posting completely ridiculous unconstructive criticism. I don't know why you're talking about enterprise security in the context of a two person startup.

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You don't seem to have much of a clue about what happened and yet you're posting analysis on it and trying to criticize me. It was the company providing the domain name and infrastructure. The company turned on the project and broke the agreements. It wasn't a technical issue.

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I wasn't paying for the infrastructure. It wasn't my account. The Twitter account was mine and was lost due to Twitter being presented a completely false narrative and choosing to turn over control of an account without looking into it or getting the other side of the story.

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Because that's where Snowden is a highly technical security expert, and knowledge of that domain would have probably saved your project here. But instead you're on Twitter lashing out at everyone else instead of exploring where you went wrong.