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hypfertoday at 9:32 AM1 replyview on HN

> while it started to look off after a while, all the replies were still like this - a bit weird, but still plausible

I believe that we will be seeing the death of "assume good faith", which is not a bad thing, given that this was an exploit vector that has been actively abused for many years now.

"Assume bad faith and work backwards from that, rule out any possible exploits and only then clear the input for processing" will be the new normal.

Which is good. We need friction. Friction makes stuff slow down and work at the speed of humans.


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account42today at 9:41 AM

It is a bad thing. The good response to bad actors abusing good faith is to make sure there are consequences that disincentivize that behavior in the future. Sliding further towards a low trust society means the bad actors winning in the same way that terrorists win when we subject everyone to restrictions as a result.

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