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This is a community that thinks it’s gross negligence if something with a real name on it fails to be airgapped.

Social shame and reputation damage may be useful defense mechanisms in general, but in a hacker culture where the right to make up arbitrarily many secret identities is a moral imperative, people who burn their identities can just get new ones. Banning or shaming is not going to work against someone with actual malicious intent.




It seems to be reacting and solving the wrong problem, and won't deter actual malicious attempts.




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