Does that even work? Have they got some code on the back end that alerts as soon as an admin name is mentioned? Or do you just assume they read everything? (Do they!?)

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But the title of the talk is actually "Bootstraping [sic] a slightly more secure laptop." Look at the first slide.

… and now we’ve lost the word “laptop”.

It works in the sense that they will probably eventually scroll through your comment and notice they've been mentioned...