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I find it accurate enough. The very nature of data is absurd, when even far more awful stuff than merely a pirated movie can be reduced to a single (albeit lar
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
I find it accurate enough. The very nature of data is absurd, when even far more awful stuff than merely a pirated movie can be reduced to a single (albeit large) number. It is one area where I feel our morality has not caught up with our technology.
For example, we think of trading stolen credit card numbers as wrong, but only because we have bought the narrative of identity theft, which was constructed to pass the burden onto the populace instead of the people handing out goods/services/money to verify identity. If you disregard the concept of identity theft, and think that instead it should be considered just theft, not from the one who possesses the identity used, but from the entity that handed out goods/services/money, then we need to reevaluate the ethics/morality of trading credit card numbers.
- mindslight 11y agoWhich is of course what the credit card company tells the SOL merchant while yanking back the damages from their own willful negligence. Consumer facing though, they'd like to define it as "identity theft" because "identity" is a bedrock abstraction their system is built on. They would like an "identity" to be something prescriptive and airtight (rather than imperfectly descriptive) because it would make their job/business that much easier.