[mkohlmyr]

I thought it was worth reading, initially I had my doubts about the veracity of the claims by the person being interviewed, I imagine some of this is as much the writers fault as anything else.

Toward the end it provided some insights that I had not previously read anything about (e.g. broods), but maybe I haven't paid enough attention to the other cicada articles.

It seemed counterintuitive to me that in the interest of free information he hid the piece of software they worked on on the "darknet"... Surely given he has come out publically the sane thing to do would be to make it easily available and open source.