[wand3r]

Schneier often has great insight but this blog post was pretty much the opposite of that. I think I recall reading the original post from the guy who found that NYU info; and I def. read the Intercept piece.

Schneier's post quotes the original article and says unfortunately we don't know more. Literally over 50% of it is a quote from another article which he derides for it's lack of substance. Not sure what the point is.

[tptacek]

For better or worse --- I think, often, it's for the worse ---- Schneier has an audience that wants his reaction on all the crypto news of the day. This is his reaction to the Intercept story. In this case, by the way, I think he's dead on.

We all need to resist the urge to judge pages linked from HN in the context of "worthy of the front page of Hacker News". Sometimes authors are writing explicitly to that kind of audience, but often, as in this case, they're not. In the context of the service Schneier is trying to provide, this is a solid and useful post.