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Re: L3GO Meeting tomorrow

>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:50:40PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>> The zoom programmers and managers mistakes are beyond incompetence: it really
>>> looks like enemy action to me.

I wrote:
>> It's so hard to tell now who's wacky and genuinely believes what they're
>> doing and who's doing it on purpose these days. What's your skill?

MCR wrote:
> I do consulting work with chinese companies.
> They are forbidden to use anything other than weechat branded Zoom.
> That should tell you everything you need to know.

Yes it does now. Thanks.

>> But then again, Zoom has 700 employees. They could have done a better
>
> 700 employees, of which most are in China.

Yeah, what I meant.

>> - ECB instead of GCM or comparative
>> - Wait, you didn't just use TLS…
>
> They didn't use TLS, because in many cases, Chinese programmers are not
> allowed to read many external source of knowledge.  Particularly including
> wikipedia.

Sigh. So they don't widely use TLS? Or all the boutique programs don't
use it either, even if it doesn't leave the country?

> The trick to getting poor results is for a manager to assign work to
> someone who has no background in the area, and make sure they can't
> talk to peers.

Point.
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