Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 184 posts.

Security & Privacy
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"Schneier's Law"

Back in 1998, I wrote: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can’t break. In 2004, Cory Doctorow called this Schneier’s law: …what I think of as Schneier’s Law: “any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to…