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throwaway150yesterday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't understand the outrage in some of the comments. The certificate transparency logs are literally meant to be read by absolutely whoever wants to read them. The clue is right in the name. It's transparency logs! Transparency!

I just don't understand how people with no clue whatsoever about what's going on feel so confident to express outrage over something they don't even understand! I don't mind someone not knowing something. Everybody has to learn things somewhere for the first time. But couldn't they just keep their outrage to themselves and take some time to educate themselves, to find out whether that outrage is actually well placed?

Some of the comments in the OP are also misinformed or illogical. But there's one guy there correcting them so that's good. I mean I'd say that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency or literally any other post about CT is going to be far more informative than this OP!


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prependyesterday at 6:08 PM

People are just raging and want an outlet. They aren’t thinking logically.

It’s been going on forever (remember how companies were reading files off your computer aka cookies in 1999?)

This seems like a total non-issue and expect that any public files are scraped by OpenAI and tons others. If I don’t want something scraped, I don’t make it public.