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Comment by brunes | Hacker News Reader

I am pretty sure they are not even a script kiddie... they are just a fairly immature troll.

Not sure what caused the original email, but the reply is just a copy/paste of various unrelated things and security incidents that the person Googled without even understanding enough about them to form a comprehensible narrative.

Which tells me they are simply trying to get a rise out of someone.

The way the grammar is constructed I would not be surprised if this came from a pre-teen.

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I've been in the government contracting space for about six months but those emails look to me to be about the level of competency I'm seeing with many of my colleagues. Spaghetti code with no unit tests and nobody knows how to use a debugger let alone a profiler. Getting irrationally mad at open source devs for making changes as if they were supposed keep the Jira tickets they were working on in mind specifically. Lack of ownership. Finger pointing. This looks quite real to me.

Not sure about the pre-teen part: it sounds more like someone who's not english native; and he mentions losing "his country".

I doubt this is real. The dude is attaching screenshots from his iPhone...

The sentence: 'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids'

Suggests he doesn't even comprehend that curl amounts to 'instructions to copy data'

And Formula 1 cars don’t have keys...

The analogy to Formula 1 isn't apt either. It can be the wheel, the engine or the steer. But it's no way a whole "car".

A better analogy is a screwdriver. He made a screwdriver. Screwdrivers have millions of legitimate and essential uses. How would you build anything without one? But a criminal could also use the screwdriver to open stuff he's not supposed to. Blaming the screwdriver manufacturer for that is pointless.

There’s an automobile analogy for everything in computing (but woe to those who use the wrong one).

The guy is unhinged but he was clearly making an analogy.

If it's not a troll I don't know what is, if it's for real that person has to have some serious mental health problems.

Trolls prefer to use public fora in order to upset the greatest number of people possible. They don't target individuals through private correspondence.

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