[colin_fraizer]

Again: exactly my point. Most people care way more about "community" than about "truth". They are all-too-happy to throw out the Git baby with the crypto-SHA-1 bathwater so they can enjoy that warm feeling of being part of The Community. (Yes, I mean them as 'sneer caps'.)

This is why Barack Obama campaigned on his opposition to gay marriage (in favor civil unions). Not that he was wrong on that issue, simply dishonest. [I know no one who believed his statements in opposition to SSM.]

Oh, no, the Groupthink Club won't consider my ideas! (In fairness, HN is less groupthink-y and more open than most fora to examination of ideas on their merits.)