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by tptacek
4863 days ago
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I'm not sure what the other thread you're pointing to has to do with money transmission laws. There, you were enlisting volunteer support for an effort that happened to be remunerative to yourself. You didn't mention that in your comment; I wished you had. (Note also that by the end of the thread the goalposts had also moved from Plainsite to Asymptote.) You then replied to the effect that I'd accused you of operating the entire effort as some kind of scam, which I of course hadn't done. That exchange, like this one, is characteristic of the way you communicate on HN. You could just respond to questions or even refute them aggressively. Instead, you take things personally and create smokescreens. It's an unfortunate habit because in this particular discussion you are probably in greater command of the facts than I am, and yet you spend credibility on pointless innuendo that is easily knocked down. (I obviously have my own expansive portfolio of unfortunate HN habits, but unlike you I'm not appealing to HN for help in any particular cause, so I think it matters less for me.) |
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PlainSite's database of public information (which is freely available to non-lawyers) is a public good. Operation Asymptote is an attempt, from which I have no way of profiting exclusively or directly, to increase the value of that public good. The only way that I might profit from Operation Asymptote is indirectly. So your argument that the "effort that happened to be remunerative to [my]self" is plainly false and deliberately misleading and possibly damaging to my reputation.
Your insightful comments about computer security on this forum are a public good. You might profit from them if someone finds them one day and agrees with or wants to know more about something you say--but so might anyone else.
The difference here is that you are (wrongly and publicly) accusing me of improper conduct for failing to note that I might profit from more public information being available, and I am not accusing you of anything because helping to improve the commons is supposed to help everyone profit, and I am glad to learn about computer security from you, and to also see you make a living from it.
So this is my last warning. Stop harassing me.