Hello Luso Brailian: I'm a senior writer with Wired (www.wired.com). Am putting ...

luso_brazilian · on Feb 5, 2016

No problems, I'll e-mail you. My hash is 66aaeaf1850395a78696b3b6c178d49fd71bf5c3

dcposch · on Feb 6, 2016

curious, what does that mean?

tgsovlerkhgsel · on Feb 6, 2016

Most likely authentication. He'll e-mail the reporter and include the input that hashes to the value. This way, the reporter can be sure it's him.

ntsb · on Feb 5, 2016

> I'm a senior writer with Wired (www.wired.com). Am putting together a small story on this. Would love to chat

You must not have a full grasp of how HN operates.

If all it takes to get into a Wired article is to regurgitate information already plentifully available online, I'm pretty worried about Wired's future.

While the comment was substantive and linked to sources, this is normal for HN and nothing special.

How about you contact the guy who posted the article? He's the CRO from F-Secure, one of the research companies that was linked to as a source.

I really hope Wired doesn't start using random comments as "experts" in articles.