Just wanted to give some context.
Here, I'll link directly to the thread you're talking about, so people can judge for themselves.
Here, I'll link directly to the thread you're talking about, so people can judge for themselves.
Edit: Since people objected and it seems like a bad idea to argue about this, I've put it back.
Your description seems pretty tendentious, though. That comment neither "point[ed] out that [tptacek] was being untruthful" nor "prove[d] that the accusations are false". It just linked to an earlier spat.
This thread is about tptacek's claim that I "attempted to whip up an Internet pitchfork mob".
I think his accusation and my response should be in the same place. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/dcposch/status/707069168852410368
I'm not saying you succeeded in creating a pitchfork mob, just that your attempts to do so were cartoonish, and so it's pretty funny to learn you've found religion about pitchforks now.
I would wrap this up by saying: things are complicated, they're often complicated in every possible direction, we usually don't have all the facts (you sure didn't), and we are rarely well served by platitudes. For example: the reason you believe the evidence against Appelbaum appears solid is that people spoke up.
That was rude, unkind and you shouldn't have posted it.
Happy to have people read both the Twitter thread and the one on HN, I think I said things that were worth, if you'll pardon the phrase, speaking up about.
Specifically: I feel bad that I didn't come up with it. It was funny!
Instead, I ended up subjecting someone else to the shitstorm you and Nadim briefly generated. Just weeks ago, you were on HN --- unbidden! --- to inform everyone that I'd been "joking about Nadim's penis". You two deserve each other.
I'm going to bow out of this part of the thread before we start litigating a different monster in the security/privacy community.