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Chris Dupres 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@blaktron
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
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
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
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Chris Dupres 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@blaktron
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@blaktron
and
@Snowden
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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Chris Dupres 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@blaktron
Replying to
@DanielMicay
and
@Snowden
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@blaktron
and
@Snowden
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@DanielMicay
@blaktron
and
@Snowden
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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