Yeah, that was main reason why I wanted to share his original post – the EFF (or ProPublica) stories aren't bad but he's done a great job writing about many things of interest to the HN community.
Didn't see this yesterday, and I'm sorry we didn't, because we would have switched out the URL. HN prefers original sources, and it's always nicer to give credit (and traffic) to the original creator or researcher.
Unfortunately, it's too late to make a difference now, so we'll just leave things as they were. However: if you (or anyone) notice something like this in the future, the best way to alert us is to email [email protected]. We can't read all the threads but we do see all those emails, and usually pretty quickly.
If you haven't seen it before, this guy's stuff is absurdly good. Encyclopedic knowledge of privacy tech and law.