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The submitted title broke the site guidelines about editorializing. (Submitted title was 'Google Dialer and SMS App steal all conversation metadata and content hashes [pdf]'.) The rule, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, is: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...




I think the original title is less informative than the editorialized one. Is it link bait? Probably not.




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