Title: There is an active Hacker News contributor currently making plans to phish Hacker News and reddit because "there is this 'smug' attitude on HN about HN'ers being 'better' than your average computer user in this respect".<p>Please be careful when filling out forms that contain any personal information or passwords. There are people out there who are looking to shame &#38; ridicule you (and worse).<p>There's no need to mention any names, because it doesn't really matter who the threat comes from.<p>To the user hatching this plan: Consider this an antibody to your plan. If your theory is true, then this posting won't make a difference anyways and you'll have the chance to shame all the people you want.<p>[Edit: I had genuinely hoped to avoid turning this into yet another cult of personality thread on HN, and unfortunately that's failed. I don't think there was an intention to cause financial harm; but I do believe there was the possibility of harm to reputation given the information I had available.<p>There was an email that was evidently sent out to many HN users today discussing this plan; but I have not been privy to that email.]
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