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Gervase Markham
Personal blog · blog.gerv.netsecurityprogramming
Gervase Markham writes Syndicate, a personal blog at blog.gerv.net about security and programming. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Going Home”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a source for Mozilla relicensing history and the DigiNotar certificate compromise, and for his posts on the Brendan Eich controversy. Commenters cite these posts; none judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-25
- Going Home2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-16
- /2006/03/relicensing_complete/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
- /2011/09/diginotar-compromise/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-03
What Hacker News says?
It is my position that he should have resigned for the good of the Mozilla community (which he did, because what he did was hurtful and mean, and the consequences of his actions make him a poor leader), or justified his homophobic beliefs and kept his job (which I believe are unjustifiable, unless he has some new information that is news to me, which is why I think he should have spoken up instead of resigning if he…
Comment linking /2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
on “Firefox Was Always Enough”Submitted Microsoft ‘Mortally Wounds’ SHA-1 as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSee also this post on Mozilla relicensing: http://blog.gerv.net/2006/03/relicensing_complete/
Comment linking /2006/03/relicensing_complete/
on “VLC Core is LGPL”Submitted Facebook doing MITM attack on your email. as a story · 33 points
HN discussionsome more info: http://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
Comment linking /2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
on “DigiNotar Damage Disclosure (with full list of issued certs)”Submitted New Class of Vulnerability in Perl Web Applications as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMozilla's Gervase Markham posted a more detailed (and, frankly, more damning) blog entry about the DigiNotar fiasco: http://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
Comment linking /2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
on “DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up”Submitted No Money in Email Clients as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYou ask in what way are your comments abusive. I believe you to be trolling because of your style of argument. You say things like [1]: "Gert (and his supporters), do you also hate women, blacks and jews as much as you hate gays, and do you agree with Brendan Eich’s support of Patrick J. Buchanan and Ron Paul?" In that entire comment you bring up unrelated issues involving US politicians as if trying to direct suppo…
Comment linking /2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted Going Home as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIs Gerv Markham the person who ironically claims to be "Hacking for Christ [1]", a religious leader who preached love and acceptance instead of hatred and discrimination [2]? The same Gerv who posted an anti-gay-marriage petition to his blog [3] that was syndicated to the public Planet Mozilla forum, publicly calling on Mozilla community members to support the Coalition for Marriage [4], a homophobic hate group [5]…
Comment linking /2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted Security Updates Not Needed as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAre you also the Don Hopkins being abusive and trolling on the comment threads of Gerv Markham's blog [1]? [1] http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
Comment linking /2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted Going Home as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBrendan Eich is not the only one working at Mozilla who is making the LGBT and non-troglodite employees and volunteers feel uncomfortable. Brendan refuses to address the issue and share his side of the story. But at least Brendan's colleague Gervase Markham at Mozilla had the guts to publicly publish and attempt to explain his hateful bigoted beliefs about gay marriage, and not censor the comments that people left o…
Comment linking /2012/03/coalition-for-marriage-petition/
on “Brendan Eich of Mozilla gave $1000 to support gay marriage ban”Submitted WoSign and StartCom as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMozilla relicensed code from 445 contributors (from MPL-only to MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license). It took them 5 years [1]. Consider complications like finding the relatives of a dead contributor, getting them to listen to you, then to understand the issue, then to agree. The Linux codebase is much older and has accumulated more contributors over that time, so the task is much larger, too. 1: http://blog.gerv.net/2006/03/r…
Comment linking /2006/03/relicensing_complete/
on “The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues”Submitted Introducing Deliberate Protocol Errors: Langley’s Law as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTo the students and mentors: congrats. GSoC is a great program and a great way to get involved in the industry. I hope you had an amazing experience. Not to take away from them, but the first sentence of this official Rust post kinda stunned me: "the Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time this year". There may be an interpretation of this sentence that is true, but multiple stud…
Comment linking /2013/06/gsoc-2013-project-list/
on “Rust GSoC 2024 Results”Submitted Email Account Phishers Do Manual Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More “Transmittable” Short URLs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poetic License: 3-clause BSD in rhyme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook switches off email forwarding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Success Is Not Inevitable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IE11, Certificates and Privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mozilla and the Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thank God for Cancer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Getting It - Mozilla’s struggle between private and public as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Updates Not Needed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Jeeves test as a story · 1 points
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