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Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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Re: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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> Donaldson, now 42, is a self-taught hacker who never finished school, was briefly unhoused, and spent most of his twenties in a “positive hardcore punk band.” “It’s cool being smart,” he told me. “But if you can’t pay your bills, you’re a dumbass.”

> The domain “Copperhead.co” was registered by Donaldson in 2014 and incorporated in 2015 under both Donaldson’s and Micay’s names. The idea was that shares would be split equally, with Donaldson as CEO and Micay as de facto chief technology officer. Their flagship product

It sounds to me like some "business" characters I know well. They "handle the business" while someone else does 99% of the actual work, then ask to split 50/50. This didn't work out for Donaldson, and now he spends his time harassing Micay? Is that the gist or am I misreading?

Re: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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I love GrapheneOS and I use it daily for more than 2 years. However, and as Louis Rossmann pointed out in one of his videos, they really need to work on the "defensiveness" and "rants" of their communication. Even when they are 99% right most of the time, they sometimes don't come as mature and professional.

Re: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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There has been a substantial surge in low quality and Reddit hive mind replies on HN lately. I’m curious what the root cause of it is.

You only just noticed this now? At the very least, HN is subject to the same intellectual capture that's taken over (seemingly) the whole damn world the past decade.

Re: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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Wired article: They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They're Sworn Enemies https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-graphene... ( https://archive.ph/pbJu9 )

That archive.ph link has a nasty captcha I can't seem to pass with regular Chrome nor Firefox. Is there a mirror of that mirror?

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/they-...

Re: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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post #11

> Donaldson, now 42, is a self-taught hacker who never finished school, was briefly unhoused, and spent most of his twenties in a “positive hardcore punk band.” “It’s cool being smart,” he told me. “But if you can’t pay your bills, you’re a dumbass.” > The domain “Copperhead.co” was registered by Donaldson in 2014 and incorporated in 2015 under both Donaldson’s and Micay’s names. The idea was that shares would be spl…

> They "handle the business" while someone else does 99% of the actual work, then ask to split 50/50.

As a response, Micay decided to destroy the update signing keys for all the CopperheadOS devices out in the wild. Resulting in financial damages to Donaldson.

Hardly a level-headed response, even if you disagree about the financial share of something.

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