Ehh. Spez being human makes me inclined to trust him a little more. I’m neutral in politics, but editing those comments was objectively funny. Stupid, yes — astonishingly so. But it finally broke the illusion that users own their comments. That’s all it ever was: an illusion.

I don’t trust authority in general. But given the choice between spez and musk, I’d take spez any day. He’s at least not hopped up on drugs running around making crazy decisions.

And in terms of Reddit’s trustworthiness, it makes even less sense that editing comments would be of any consequence. If they detect a hacker and have the logs to prove it, they’d gain nothing by modifying the logs. And if they don’t, they gain nothing by fabricating the logs. So it seems reasonable to conclude that they just don’t have the logs.

Which is also reasonable. When I was hacking into systems at Matasano, it always made me uncomfortable just how undetectable I was. I wasn’t trying particularly hard to conceal myself, but a few well-chosen bash incantations and opening things in vi means all anyone sees is that a vi process is running.