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noop2714on Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go

Reading through the thread, I can tell you have depth of experience.

Perhaps bringing it down a notch could help you connect with others’ perspectives as well.

noop2714on Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

What’s old is new again.

Maybe we should prioritize the simplest possible solution rather than what’s trendy today.

noop2714on Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet

> that kind of things has probably happened to most of companies created less than a year ago

No company gets a free pass on the implications of sacrificing privacy or security. Even if “less than a year old”.

This is serious:

“Any observer of internet traffic could easily match IDs on shared chatrooms to see who is talking to whom. For mainland Chinese users, this is troubling”

noop2714on Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet

> This is not the bug of the year. Ok, the id is not the encrypted. So encrypt it and next. Nothing to see

The privacy implications of leaking user identifying information are massive. Not something that should be dismissed so quickly as “nothing to see”.

Maybe not interesting for you, but many of us care about holding companies accountable for bad practices. If you don’t, this will become more common as it’s effectively being tolerated.