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rand83746on What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works

And the NSA apparently doesn't use Asymmetric Crypto for anything for this reason and perhaps others.

rand83746on CIA malware and hacking tools

I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to whether or not he's guilty of perjury. But, he's definitely a fucking liar, and you can't argue with that.

rand83746on CIA malware and hacking tools

And the people inside the government to whom the intelligence is provided have every right to trust the source. However, to us in the public, we don't know these people, and have zero reason to trust them, absent actual factual evidence. What, you wouldn't put it past them to lie all the sudden?

rand83746on CIA malware and hacking tools

And this whole thing seems to be a Confluence dump.

rand83746on CIA malware and hacking tools

God, I wish HN had a more convenient downvote button.

rand83746on How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men

It seems like, to achieve diversity like this, especially in the Engineering team, you'd have to have a bias and preference to candidates that "increase diversity". How are you not passing on many people better qualified to do the job? To me, such a bias is, itself, discriminatory. Why judge candidates based on such shallow considerations as gender?