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Yes, just because a popular blog about a infamously insecure operating system shrugged off certain classes of security problems as “you’re holding it wrong” two decades ago, OS security should be held to the same standard as that piece of shit OS forever. Nothing to see here.

Edit: IIRC the original argument was more reasonable, but it has since been abused in all kinds of situations to make low effort putdowns, like this one.



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