>Hacker Killed by Drone Was ‘Secret Weapon’
>Targeting of Islamic State’s electronics expert shows how digital warfare has upset balance of power on modern battlefield
>By MARGARET COKER in London, DANNY YADRON in San Francisco and DAMIAN PALETTA in Washington Aug. 27, 2015 7:36 p.m. ET
>U.S. and British officials decided earlier this year that a hacker needed to die.
So I don't really understand what the 'Secret Weapon' the title of the post means, or anything more than the fact that according to US and UK officials a hacker needed to die and was indeed killed by a drone. Not much to hold a meaningful discussion really.
It was his "hacker" callsign.
Many of the "science" threads on HN lead to paywalled sites where only an abstract or summary is available without login but that's sadly very common these days as it's hard to get access to published papers without having a university login.
That said as far as WSJ goes you can't publish the paywall bypass link, Google removed the "Google Sent Me" chrome extensions for a reason as it was a violation in their opinion.
The Google referral is selective choice by the site owner, it varies from country to country, site to site, and article to article.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> Flagging an article that's otherwise good for HN, purely because it's behind one of these semi-paywalls, is not an ok use of flagging. We revoke flagging rights from accounts that do that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032121
> The HN guidelines explicitly call for original sources. We want the best, most substantive version of a story. Other things being equal, we all prefer non-paywalled articles, but when things are not equal, substance should win. When there are standard workarounds to read the content, paywalls are just an inconvenience. The more this comes up, the clearer it gets that we shouldn't ban paywalls.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717733