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I think we can all agree that privacy violations are wrong. Therefore, only by preventing a greater harm can something like this be considered justified. It's

I think we can all agree that privacy violations are wrong. Therefore, only by preventing a greater harm can something like this be considered justified. It's too bad a cost benefit analysis is so tricky here. Exposing cheaters could prevent further cheating, but it could also cause serious identify theft. In the end, I think the line is too blurry to seriously justify the breach.

tripzilch 11y ago
The amount of dickheads (aka the people that actually harmed others or did really badwrong stuff) that will truly end up getting "what they deserve" (in the eyes those who see it that way), is probably going to be a rather small subset of the total amount of exposed dicks on that site, regardless of how broad a brush of wrongdoing you want to paint with. Even if there is a part of the leaked users that, if I were to know exactly about their situations, I might agree totally deserve to be outed because of their really shitty and reprehensible actions it just doesn't weigh up against everything else: - This isn't the Jerry Springer show. No matter the level of dickhead move, the outing doesn't need to be this public for the world. If only for the sake of the wronged parties. - That gay Saudi guy who now risks being put to death because of this leak, and others like him, they chose AM because it advertised secrecy and discretion, which obviously turned out to be a mistake, but whatever the hackers claim their motive is, leaking the data was a much bigger mistake. - The incredible amount of domestic abuse fallout that this outing is going to cause. - The children. - People that got an account for whatever reason but caught themselves as they realized wtf they were about to throw away. - Relationships that actually worked hard to get through and over a difficult time, now being confronted again, except this time the mess they wanted to put behind them lies out on the streets for everyone to see. - People that got an account for shits and giggles. Fake names, fake accounts, fake email adresses and anyone getting caught in the shitstorm surrounding this. I can think of so many more examples of situations getting caught in the crossfire. And really, you know that a large part of the slimiest dickheads are still going to get away with this, no matter what.

tripzilch 11y ago

The amount of dickheads (aka the people that actually harmed others or did really badwrong stuff) that will truly end up getting "what they deserve" (in the eyes those who see it that way), is probably going to be a rather small subset of the total amount of exposed dicks on that site, regardless of how broad a brush of wrongdoing you want to paint with. Even if there is a part of the leaked users that, if I were to know exactly about their situations, I might agree totally deserve to be outed because of their really shitty and reprehensible actions it just doesn't weigh up against everything else: - This isn't the Jerry Springer show. No matter the level of dickhead move, the outing doesn't need to be this public for the world. If only for the sake of the wronged parties. - That gay Saudi guy who now risks being put to death because of this leak, and others like him, they chose AM because it advertised secrecy and discretion, which obviously turned out to be a mistake, but whatever the hackers claim their motive is, leaking the data was a much bigger mistake. - The incredible amount of domestic abuse fallout that this outing is going to cause. - The children. - People that got an account for whatever reason but caught themselves as they realized wtf they were about to throw away. - Relationships that actually worked hard to get through and over a difficult time, now being confronted again, except this time the mess they wanted to put behind them lies out on the streets for everyone to see. - People that got an account for shits and giggles. Fake names, fake accounts, fake email adresses and anyone getting caught in the shitstorm surrounding this. I can think of so many more examples of situations getting caught in the crossfire. And really, you know that a large part of the slimiest dickheads are still going to get away with this, no matter what.