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197 points pkilgore | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bringen ◴[16 Oct 24 14:55 UTC] No.41859793[source]▶
Interesting to note that the A record for stallman-report.org was, up until a few days ago, the same as the A record for drewdevault.com:

https://i.ibb.co/RNBGcTJ/securitytrails-drewdevault.png

https://i.ibb.co/NYtTQnh/securitytrails-stallmanreport.png

So even though the report is anonymous, we can be almost certain that Drew is behind it, as he was for the previous hit piece.

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bringen ◴[16 Oct 24 15:47 UTC] No.41860468[source]▶
Furthermore, while that same IP address (46.23.81.157) no longer hosts the stallman-report.org website, responding with "404 Site not found" if requested, it still has a certificate for stallman-report.org, which can be observed if a matching SNI record is sent during the TLS handshake:

https://i.ibb.co/S0fPvW3/ddv-sr-cert.png

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1. rstuart4133 ◴[16 Oct 24 21:24 UTC] No.41863984[source]▶
Thank you. Sometimes I find myself in awe of the ability of random internet threads to dig out the background material needed to make sense of a a flame war.

This connection to Drew, combined with this comment from him here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124

and this link also posted here (the commented is downvoted to [dead]):

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault...

puts some much needed light on the source of all this heat.

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2. bringen ◴[19 Oct 24 19:39 UTC] No.41890157[source]▶
Your second link is worth reading again, seems it has had some rather concerning updates in the past day or two.

A post from that thread, linked below, is currently highlighted on that site's front page with the title "An open letter libeling Richard Stallman as a pedophile was probably written by Drew DeVault, a progressive open-source developer who has 10 years of history posting lolicon on reddit":

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault...

It describes various of Drew's online habits over the years, including sharing artwork of prepubescent children in swimsuits. Perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable non-pedophilic reason for this, and I do hope Drew will return to the comments here once more to explain.

Either way, with this in mind, it places this section of Drew's report in a rather different context:

https://stallman-report.org/#support-for-the-possession-of-c...