Comment by svnpenn

3 years ago

Filippo Valsorda seems to be happy to ignore the fact that NIST already let an NSA backdoor in, as recently as 2014:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

is he really just going to ignore something from 8 years ago?

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throwaway654329  3 years ago

Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation.

As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a victim, irony of irony) before he took the job with them.

As Upton Sinclair remarked: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Joining Google after Snowden revealed PRISM and BULLRUN, as well as MUSCULAR, is almost too rich to believe, Meanwhile he asserts and dismisses Bernstein as a conspiracy theorist. It’s a classic bad faith ad-hominem coincidence theory.

oittaa  3 years ago
  • tptacek  3 years ago

    First, last I checked, Filippo does not in fact work at Google.

    Second: the guidelines on this site forbid you to write comments like this; in fact, this pattern of comments is literally the most frequent source of moderator admonitions on HN.

    Filippo hardly needs me to defend his reputation, but, as a service to HN and to you in particular, I'd want to raise your awareness of the risk of beclowning yourself by suggesting that he, of all people, is somehow compromised.