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Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by MangoCoffee on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:55PM (#43134963)
so? a son does not have to bear the sin of his father.
Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by EA-3167 on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:13PM (#43135079)
True, but it is interesting, and given that he's "sinned" enough on his own to merit scrutiny it makes for a good headline. The first page gets into the more relevant vetting details though.

> Coristine has a brief but colorful history that includes being fired from Path Networks, a cybersecurity company, for giving company documents to a competitor. He apparently palled around with a criminal hacking group called The Com and, according to a Telegram account associated with him, had solicited hacking services online. In 2021, he founded a company called Tesla.Sexy LLC that, according to Wired, “controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.”

Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by palmotea on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:56PM (#43135325)
> so? a son does not have to bear the sin of his father.

But nature and nurture have an effect on how people turn out, so the connection is interesting, at least.

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Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by juanjmanfredi on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:54PM (#43134955)
This attitude is like demanding that an overweight man amputate his arm.
Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by palmotea on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:57PM (#43135332)
> This attitude is like demanding that an overweight man amputate his arm.

Or shoot himself in the head. I don't think anyone could lose any more weight than they could by decaying to bones.

Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by patrickhogan1 on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:59PM (#43135345)
“ In April 1982, the FBI recruited Martynov as an agent. He stayed in place and began feeding Soviet secrets to his FBI handlers.”

So his grandfather worked for the US.

And the other issue people have with this guy is he’s a - hacker? This is hacker news.

I’m not supporting all that’s being done. But the title is clearly a shot at knocking this guy down a peg. And none of this supports that.

Re:Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of tu... by readthenotes1 on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:22PM (#43135469)
Instead of ad hominem, it's ad avum