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F5 is a special case here because it is the exact same action that a law-abiding person does. The reason I'm stressing the F5 case is because saying "Hey you pr
by parennoob 10y ago
F5 is a special case here because it is the exact same action that a law-abiding person does. The reason I'm stressing the F5 case is because saying "Hey you pressed F5 with this motive, so you go to jail" is equivalent to thoughtcrime – you're being punished for your thoughts rather than your actions.
Now if someone is using tools specially built for DoS I don't have a a problem with them being prosecuted.
- teddyh 10y ago> tools specially built for That is also a problematic definition. I recall similar arguments being made against "nmap"; should we ban nmap, or criminalize its use? I also remember when Dan Farmer was fired for simply writing a security scanner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_fo...), using the same reasoning.