My advice, is wait at least 2 weeks, then start reading the news on this saga. That is what i am doing, all i hear is snippets on tv, now i hear that the Guardian is walking back many of their statements, Mark Andreessen just said that he was holding judgement as well until everything becomes clearer. Everybody else on HN are having emotional and knee jerk reactions, when we get a solid longform peace of journalism in a few weeks, then we will get a clearer picture. Until then i just ignore all the links here on the topic and focus on tech.
The Guardian is not "walking back their claims:" the NSA slide claimed "direct" access. Now, does it really matter if the NSA has root on the server or if it's just some sort of mirroring/splitting scheme?
You seem all too happy to adopt the loaded language of the naysayers for someone claiming rational forbearance.
That obviously matters a tremendous amount, both in terms of how much we should continue to trust the companies involved and also what countermeasures we can take.
I've been trying to lately. I'm not as outraged as many so my opinion tends to get smacked around a bit. So now I try to ignore a lot of it... or at least read things with an open mind, knowing that perhaps some people are wrong at times.
Ya... a lot of other people have too. Unfortunately, I'm looking for confirmation rather than guessing. Palantir has said they're not involved... but I'm not sure that counts as confirmation either. lol
