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Re:DecryptoCat by npsimons on Thursday July 04, 2013 @01:56PM (#5991727)
This. Every time someone gets flamed, you get the same crowd of people going "what an asshole". Except, oh wait, the person got flamed for breaking userspace and not fessing up to it, or providing a false sense of security to people whose lives depend upon it. And in each case, these weren't newbies - they had been warned before and should have known better. It's not just ignorance, it's willful, practically malicious ignorance.

Wake up. This isn't some social media photo-sharing app. This is the literal definition of mission critical software. Being an asshole is the cost to pay to either a) convince incompetent people to stop wasting everyone else's time or b) convince them to become competent.

You know why I don't write and release crypto software? Because I know I'm not qualified to.

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