[HN Gopher] The Unknown Story of Phil Zimmermann
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       The Unknown Story of Phil Zimmermann
        
       Author : 0des
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-11-30 15:32 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.michaelrinderle.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.michaelrinderle.com)
        
       | not2b wrote:
       | s/important 5th amendment issue/important 1st amendment issue/
        
       | lisper wrote:
       | "Checking your browser before accessing www.michaelrinderle.com"
       | 
       | WTF? What exactly is it about my browser that you want to check?
       | And why is it taking so long?
        
         | webmobdev wrote:
         | It's just free advertisement for CloudFlare. They offer "free"
         | DDoS protection to sites, and use this as a form of advertising
         | too by showing this to any visitor that browses a "cloudflare
         | protected" site that use some kind of improved privacy settings
         | or privacy oriented browser extension on their browser. (They
         | are the equivalent of the old _" your xxx antivirus is
         | protecting"_ you popups). The better the privacy settings, the
         | more it will make you go through what is now infamous as the _"
         | Captcha hell"_.
         | 
         | (Ofcourse, they kindly offer you a "solution" to avoid this
         | nagging - the _Cloudflare Privacy Pass_. Install the browser
         | extension and sacrifice your privacy, and CloudFlare will not
         | nag you).
         | 
         | I am from India, where many unsecure computers are often
         | infected with malware, and often part of large bot networks.
         | Thus, many indian IPs are already in blacklists or treated
         | suspiciously. So I see this a lot. So much, that I just despise
         | CloudFlare now (recently even recommended Netlify over
         | Cloudflare to a client to have my petty revenge over them).
        
         | tenebrisalietum wrote:
         | Cloudflare DDOS protection?
        
           | lisper wrote:
           | Well, yeah, that's what it says. But how exactly is "checking
           | my browser" for 30 seconds or more (I gave up on it after
           | that) supposed to prevent a DDOS attack?
        
             | dec0dedab0de wrote:
             | I would assume it is fingerprinting you and checking you
             | against a list of bad fingerprints.
        
             | tenebrisalietum wrote:
             | If you're serious about accessing the site and not just a
             | script creating trouble, you'll stick around.
        
       | asasidh wrote:
       | Potential Satoshi candidate
        
         | bob332 wrote:
         | Lol no he is far too clever to waste his time on crypto crap
        
       | lixtra wrote:
       | Seems to be overwhelmed
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20210517082014/https://www.micha...
        
         | DFHippie wrote:
         | Alas, it is doomed to stay unknown hidden behind this link.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | nickdothutton wrote:
       | I'll save you the bother. Chances are you know everything this
       | article tells you.
        
         | AlexCoventry wrote:
         | Seems likely that some of the details are wrong, too. I think
         | it would have been a 1st amendment issue, not 5th. Also, I
         | doubt the government backed off because they were worried he
         | would become a martyr. Seems more likely that they knew they
         | would lose.
        
       | shkkmo wrote:
       | The voice of this article reminds me strongly of "you won't
       | believe what happened next" crappy click-bait articles. I'm not
       | sure why exactly but I think it has something to do with the
       | weird tense it is written in.
        
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