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0 pointsgretch6y ago0 comments

I’m shocked at how cynical your perspective is that you don’t grant credit here.

Like if I said “the police didn’t save me from the hostage situation. Some hero saved me who happened to be working for the police. In an alternate universe we don’t where this guy isn’t employed by the police, we don’t know if he wouldn’t have saved me anyway”

Can’t you just say, thanks police, you saved me.

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matheusmoreira6y ago

> Can’t you just say, thanks police, you saved me.

No. The police doesn't actually have to save people. When that happens, it's because of the heroism of individual officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

feanaro6y ago

I just prefer congratulating the actual people that did this instead of the relatively arbitrary money supplier. You could say I'm equally shocked that credit is propagated as "Google" instead of the names of the researchers.

askmike6y ago

The reason I said Google because I think that if the NSA pulled some strings at Google, this exploit would not have been published. As such this was all in the hands of Google.

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