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Re:A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s... by digi_owl on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:36AM (#13104581)
Its a social studies article masking as a tech article because iPhone.

Its what you get when hipsters think they are hot shit with tech because they own something Apple made.

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Re:A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s... by acqq on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:10AM (#13104886)
As far as I understand the article was written by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Burrough

Yes, he is not a technology writer. But it's also obvious that the technology specialists weren't the target audience of this article.

It is surely not easy read for us who expect to read the technical info, and who already know most of the context.

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Re:A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s... by godmodus on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:28AM (#13104955)
the problem is having it posted to Hackernews. who here reads vanity fair ? :P

but let the normies have their day in the sun! not all hipsters are bad and i guess someone out there did enjoy the readup. i'd really wish these things weren't posted to HN though.

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Re:A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s... by AznHisoka on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:51AM (#13105299)
hipsters are like teenage sex. everyone talks about it and makes fun of it but it dorsnt really exist.
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