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> how do you make a case that it's unethical for dragnet traffic looking for people who want to blow up civilians with homemade bombs? If you think leaking inf
by tomp 11y ago
> how do you make a case that it's unethical for dragnet traffic looking for people who want to blow up civilians with homemade bombs?
If you think leaking info about one organisation "doing bad stuff" (AM) is unethical, how can you then make the case that leaking info about NSA can be ethical? (I don't know if you do, but I certainly do.)
Btw, I don't think hacking should be the crime it is today. At least not as long as the state agencies can do it. We should put more emphasis on computer security, not on persecution of Aaron Swartzes and such people.
- lentil_soup 11y agoThey are way different. Leaking stuff from A.M. is a personal matter. The NSA (and equivalents in other countries) is a public entity.
- tomp 11y agoHow about Stratfor and Hacking Team?
- gizmo686 11y agoOne could consider leaking info about the NSA to be ethical, however leaking leaking the NSA's database of our private email addresses to be unethical. More generally, when you leak something ethically, you should take care to redect the portions of the leak that will cause undue harm relative to their value (or, as many leaker due, give the full leak to a trustworthy third party (ie. a journalist), and trust them to redect responsibly). In this case, the hackers could have leaked AM's unethical behaviour without leaking their user's informaion.