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That's a pretty big strawman. A better recourse would be to whistle blow in that scenario. Though clearly that carries a great deal of personal risk too. Destr
by runamok 10y ago
That's a pretty big strawman. A better recourse would be to whistle blow in that scenario. Though clearly that carries a great deal of personal risk too.
Destroying a company damages all of that companies customers and employees as well. The difference between a surgical strike of a "bad guy" and carpet bombing a country.
- tracker1 10y agoAnd if the government is complicit, and acting against its' own laws? That isn't such a strawman. Also, blowing the whistle can mean many things... in this case, it was a temporary disruption, not much different than an organized strike would be.
- johansch 10y agoCorrupt stuff in third world countries do not get entire chapters in CERT books - that's where things like these are expected to happen. Over and over again.
- tracker1 10y agoThe NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country. Then again, he didn't take down the NSA's routers or spying aparatus on the way out either.
- johansch 10y ago> The NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country. Yeah, isn't that what I said?