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briandmyers  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Remember the Ayyyyyyylmao: Censorship, Fat-Shaming and the Reddit Revolt

Since (AFAICS) he hasn't provided his public key anywhere, with which we could verify this message, then it's meaningless (as I understand PGP/GPG).

If he did so, then we could tell if any leet haxors had twisted his words behind his back - if we bothered to check, which we of course would not.





user-inactivated  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The comment links to keybase, and his public key is there. Not that that makes it any less pointless, but for what it's worth if you want to copy and paste his comment, remove the leading whitespace, and fix where the markup has mangled the signature, you can satisfy yourself that this comment was written by DarkLinkXXXX and no other.

briandmyers  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aha. I visited the site, but didn't see any user-info links; but when I put his hubski-username into the search-box, his profile and key did pop up.

syzo  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not only that, Hubski's markup makes the stuff in between plus characters bold. So you could still theoretically verify, but it would be a pain in the ass.

Also, it's just distracting from the rest of the comments.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3208 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree. That's why I moved my signature to an unmangled pastebin link. ;)

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