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Let me introduce you to PTECH and see if you still think Solarwinds was worse. Warning, a conspiracy rabbit hole lies this way, proceed with caution, lest your view of the world be challenged.

A start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuZRMpt_Tas&t=195



Is there something about that available in a serious form? (not a movie, especially Youtube movie)


> Is there something about that available in a serious form? (not a movie, especially Youtube movie)

Wall Street Journal:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1039184086357188113

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech



> hand-hold on an important topic

I assume that things available only as youtube video, unavailable in a text form are unimportant.

(not all things in text form are important, but it is a nice filter that basically always works)


I think that is a very limited and closed mindset that inherently precludes a lot of first hand source information.

something about leading a horse to water I suppose


The first and most important skill needed for the internet to be a net gain for a persons understanding is the ability to quickly develop and modify heuristics to filter out bad data. Filtering good data is fine, the truth repeats itself in many formulations, but believing bad data or even spending too long noticing it is bad and you are worse off than just using a library and books.


Hand waving cliches are not a strong foundation for truth seeking.


Given that audio and video are much less likely than written works to include references and are harder to reference themselves, I think they are poor evidence of anything contentions such as a conspiracy theory.




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