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by Fnoord 1473 days ago
If the information was given solely to public security experts with blog presence (Matthew Green, Bruce Schneier, and a plethora of others) we could've linked to them and either ignore the 'clickbait middleman' or do most of the work for them allowing them an easier time to write up something half decent.
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Matthew Green once publicly criticized something I created by simply parroting what someone else had said without bothering to do his own investigation. The original criticism turned out to be hogwash, and Matthew failed to recognize an obvious real crypto problem with the first version of my feature because he was too busy trying to just quickly stick his name into someone else's feature announcement while it was still "hot off the press."

I would take anything Matthew Green blogs about with a grain of salt. It's not clear how much of what he says is just cheap amplification of what others claim.

MG shows here that even a small dose of fame can ruin the biggest of nerds.