I remember sitting in the audience, when he used the line.
"..to anyone thinking the NSA is not watching you."
(Turns on his phone)
"Now they do."
He was great in that way. And probably still is.
Charismatic. And a catchy speaker.
A Entertainer.
And a great public advocate for the TOR-Project. Well now he is that no more.
Well the larger then live they are - the deeper they fall.
Still.
So what do you do when the Great are also not good? Hate and Rage for their ability to fool you? Or just accept that he served a useful purpose and forget about the person.
In TOR lives something of the anonymity and anarchy of the old internet on.
Which was and is a good thing.
Beneath this mask, there are ideas Mr.Needy, and ideas are bully-proof.
isis agora lovecruft wrote a nuanced post[1] on this. From my outside perspective it's not about Tor but about preventing harm to the community. In the end hacker culture was always about doing interesting stuff and less so about selling or presenting it. Everyone will do fine, I guess. I for one would prefer "bad" talks with lot's of technical merit instead of more show. I don't have an opinion about the accusations as someone standing on the sideline but I think it's only fair to respect their decisions.
Who would have listen to her?
'anarchist, lesbian unicorn from Azkaban' or other gender bender fuckwits - wtf.
The lefties have truly spread their social disease across the developer community.
All those sobby stories from women in tech?
We need charismatic leaders, despite the domain in which we work for to get a direction.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 17.4 ms ] threadSo what do you do when the Great are also not good? Hate and Rage for their ability to fool you? Or just accept that he served a useful purpose and forget about the person. In TOR lives something of the anonymity and anarchy of the old internet on. Which was and is a good thing. Beneath this mask, there are ideas Mr.Needy, and ideas are bully-proof.
[1] https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees....