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It's a problem exactly because it's up-voted, it's derailing. Happens on so many articles recently. Either derailing by a personal anecdote, or by the "middlebrow dismissal": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

Both are equally derailing. In this case, I would much rather the comments be about the actual OS in question or the trend of big companies crowdsourcing security (penetration testing).

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One man's trash is another man's treasure. Otherwise we'd all be reading a website called Hacker Facts, not Hacker News.

These anecdotes provide societal context to the story. Why would Microsoft get the public to harden their product? Surely they have enough resources to do it themselves right?

Because many eyes make light work. Some people would obsess over trying to hack this OS, putting in far more effort than someone paid 9-5 to do it.

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