I thought this was kind of funny. One of the slides had a Facebook ID, which somebody on HN looked up, found a profile, then browsed pictures to find a phone number. Then somebody called his office. Because, you know, because.
Which I then realized isn’t that funny. How many phone calls has this guy received from the NSA? How many courtesy calls will he get today from the Internet Super Sleuths? It’s like “The NSA has the theoretical potential to abuse this information. To prove the threat is real, I’m going to go ahead and abuse it myself.”
I thought this was kind of funny. One of the slides had a Facebook ID, which somebody on HN looked up, found a profile, then browsed pictures to find a phone number. Then somebody called his office. Because, you know, because.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6133518
Which I then realized isn’t that funny. How many phone calls has this guy received from the NSA? How many courtesy calls will he get today from the Internet Super Sleuths? It’s like “The NSA has the theoretical potential to abuse this information. To prove the threat is real, I’m going to go ahead and abuse it myself.”