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So what's your name? You're making some pretty ugly accusations here, it would be nice if you had the backbone to sign them.

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My words don't matter due to pseudonymity?

if you want to know why I'm pseudonymous, please refer to the "chilling effect" comments in grandparent.

When you say you don't trust someone, is that an accusation? Otherwise, the only perceived accusation (he was a "nothing to see here" guy during the snowden leaks) is easily corroborated by his posting history. Go back to the first leaks, match up dates, and see what I'm talking about.

I'm looking forward to your response.

Impugning the integrity of people on a public forum, without putting your name to it, and without providing evidence, makes you a coward.

There is evidence. I told you how to find it.

you can slander me all you want, but it doesn't make my words less relevant.

Edit:tried to create another account with my full name, but replying is prevented. At least dang knows who I am now. I trust that guy.

How many other HN accounts might we know you as?

You have not given us one shred of evidence to back up your claims. Just because you include the words "Snowden","NSA backdoor", and "Dual EC" in a paragraph doesn't make any of your conclusions magically true. You have no papers,public comments, or code contributions to prove your point. Just a lot of assumptions.

You are pretty funny. I didn't use the words you quoted.

We were talking about tptacek, but excellent job divirting attention.

There's a delay on reply links appearing in deeply nested threads, but they should be there by now. Obviously it's up to you whether to say your name or not. I do need to ask you, though, not to post comments impugning other users. In the rare case where there's real evidence about something relevant, such a post might be admissible, maybe. But the bar for that is high, and your comments in this thread don't come close.

The general churn of this forum needs to be kept free of accusations and insinuations against other users, or we'll lose what tenuous grip on civility we have. So please don't do that.

To be honest, it was not really meant to impugn. My not trusting the guy, and the resulting downvotes, are enough evidence that HN at large disagrees with my opinion.

As such, I will work to make it less inciteful and respectful in the future. I got the info I needed about Ptacek.

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