Hacker News Reader

Comment by Topfi | Hacker News Reader

For our US friends, as context, this is akin to Rudy Giuliani being a cybersecurity expert. Partly, because it simply never was Sebastian Kurzs area of expertise, mainly because the referenced corruption scandal centered around the use of Whatsapp to facilitate said corruption, so, you know...

View on HN

Well it's more like Rudy Giuliani starting a bitcoin company regardless of his expertise in any one particular area right, which basically has happened a couple times now: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/former-associates-rudy-giuliani-...

The NY politician to grifter pipeline is interesting (Giuliani, Adams, Cuomo).

You sure it's not a grifter to NY politician pipeline?

All my NYC relatives seem to have choice (unfavorable) words to say about every single one of their politicians, and have ever since Koch's 3rd term.

It's hard to serve 11M people, so most people who get into that position do so by promising to serve 11M people and then serving themselves.

New York's favorite thing to do is vote in the worst people and then complain nonstop.

I sometimes wonder if this is the true function of leaders in a democracy. To serve as a scapegoat so that the electorate has somebody to blame for all the unsolved problems in their life. It's psychologically much easier to believe that you're held down by the government and discharge responsibility for fixing your life to your government leaders than it is to take the long, challenging and often risky steps toward improving your actual life. Also, people who do take the latter path often end up with noticeably better lives over the years, and yet few people take that path.

Note that electing clowns to public office is not unique to NYC - we've had a reality TV star and an actor as POTUS (the latter also serving as governor of California), Toronto has elected a criminal as mayor, Minnesota got a pro-wrestler as governor, South Korea had multiple presidents resign in disgrace, and South America seems to have politicians ping-pong between prison and presidency.

I think you're maybe kind of right. We convince ourselves that politicians are idiots so we elect idiots.

I think the biggest change is we don't really hold them accountable anymore, at least in western democracies. Maybe we never really did.

And non-partisan!

He has already IT experience then. Surely he learned something out of it. Securely using apps. Discretely handling deals, etc.

Anyway from their webpage: > We work directly with heads of state, ministries, national cyber authorities, and the senior officials responsible for executing national strategy.

So I presume he has and provides contacts. Just the usual one hand washes the other. Nothing nefarious I'm sure.

LMAO, you mean he learned to install Signal and turn on disappearing messages after all of his chat messages, obviously implying corrupt political practices, were read in a special government committee? The guy doesn't even know what DHCP is, "I'm sure". I almost feel bad that company is getting traffic from HN. Kurz is such a disgusting little worm.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com