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When you were 19/20, you didn't realize creating a botnet to take down competing businesses would be illegal?
by russelldc 9y ago
When you were 19/20, you didn't realize creating a botnet to take down competing businesses would be illegal?
- alexschnapp 9y agoAnyone with a brain would know it's illegal, just like anyone would know selling weed is illegal unless you own a dispensary, and can get a really harsh sentence.
- meowface 9y agoSure, but selling weed generally doesn't harm anyone, while sabotaging and extorting a company directly causes harm to its owners, employees, shareholders, and customers. Not to mention the harm caused by infecting millions of people's devices to create the botnet in the first place.
- tedivm 9y agoWhat is the point you're trying to make here, that somehow this was a victimless crime?
- bloaf 9y ago"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." - G.K. Chesterton