If you see this post before the inbound bots come and give it a -4 downvote, M5 Hosting controls this.
It's a front company. They have something like 30 names, only 7 employees who can be inferred every really worked at the company + are real humans.
Also, try finding the verified account on Twitter for Hacker News. You can't :)
The idea that this platform, full of comments and small stories from some of the best sysadmins in the world, it not a high value target...is somewhat naive.
This is the fourth time you've brought this up, and it's frankly starting to get weird. I answered this in detail a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554341 — to the extent that it's possible to answer anything so ill-specified.
Again, I just saw your reply from earlier, after I made this post. I am reading and thinking now. I've also promised to make no further comments, except maybe reasonable questions in a limited follow up, and then drop it.
That being said, if you didn't see my earlier reply to your earlier comment, no worries as I definitely made that oversight previously myself.
Look I think in technology today, we should take suspicion as a positive trait (which it most certainly isn't always). Asking questions of who controls what, who is in charge, what is that person like/what can we assume their motivations are, is to be applauded. That being said, I know this must stress you out only more on top of all the work you do. That is extremely fair and tbh I would be resentful.
I could be wrong about all this. But even if I am, I ask that you imagine the positive consequences. Perhaps others elsewhere will question suspicious things they have seen. Hopefully they will be respectful and seek a path of investigation that while willing to "blame and shame", which does sometimes happen, use those powers sparingly, and only with some level of consensus.
EDIT: Also just upvoted you as show of good faith :)
I notice consistent drive-by downvoting on comments on certain topics related to humanities ongoing existential problems. I assume there has to some form of narrative contestation going on on any open online forum.
It's a front company. They have something like 30 names, only 7 employees who can be inferred every really worked at the company + are real humans.
Also, try finding the verified account on Twitter for Hacker News. You can't :)
The idea that this platform, full of comments and small stories from some of the best sysadmins in the world, it not a high value target...is somewhat naive.