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I would not be surprised if this is related to the Gawker debacle.


Why at all? Because Thiel is an investor in Palantir? I googled a bit to try and something that relates Gawker and Palantir beyond that.


"... in the next phase, you too will be subject to a dose of transparency. However philanthropic your intention, and careful the planning, the details of your involvement will be gruesome."

http://gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel-1778991227


Having tried to avoid that entire story up until reading that, I remain pitiless for gawker's position in every way and I hope it burns to the ground.


Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much, suddenly it all becomes clear.

Holding the rich to account. How very non politically correct and unjournalistic of them.


"Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much"

How about when they publicly outed him as gay, when he wasn't out to most of the general public?

Source, but don't visit it, in case you give those parasites a couple of dimes in the process: http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people


The wonders of adblock, wasting bandwidth and power while contributing a total of absolutely nothing to the companies in which you despise.


Indeed, I am kind of surprised at how many in the press are backing Gawker, after Denton straight-up threatened to use the site (and presumably others) for further blackmail. It is crazy.


You could be right. The Gawker case has left bad blood with other journalists and the press in general, including those that hate Gawker, ironically.

Publishers -- online & off -- now fear that a single lawsuit has the potential to shut them down. Many on hn have applauded the cases' outcome. Yet it presents a future where big corporations and the world's ultra wealthy can fund endless suits against hostile news outlets until they fold. That is a chilling future in exchange for being free of the drivel of horse shit Gawker and Jezebel published daily.

Bezos and other business minded press owners recognize this. Even if they aren't free speech idealists, they don't appreciate dramatic adjustments to their company valuations due to previously unforeseen external threats.

One can weave a lot of threads between Thiel, Buzzfeed, Facebook, and even Trump. May be it has nothing to do with Peter Thiel and it was just a few disgruntled employees or two.

One thing is certain, when sources complain about Thiel or his companies now and in the future, journalists are going to be paying a little more attention than they did before.

For what its worth, in regard to the original article, it doesn't strike me as particularly damning to Palantir. If a pentest fails, either you hired someone who wasn't that good, or your network is airgapped and your devices have zero external ports.




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