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I wonder if there would be a way to DoS them by sending phony lists with tens of thousands of machine generated latino sounding names.
by gnu8 9y ago
I wonder if there would be a way to DoS them by sending phony lists with tens of thousands of machine generated latino sounding names.
- talmand 9y agoI'm sure there would be if you're willing to be on the hook for a series of potential felonies.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoJust this morning there was a discussion on HN about how the only way to deal with the mountain of laws that don't make sense anymore is to selectively stop enforcing them. I can guarantee you've inadvertently violated the letter of some law somewhere several times today, despite being (I assume) a generally good person. So ask yourself: how much are you willing to piss off a three-lettered agency regardless of the legality of that specific action?
- whatshisface 9y agoIn one HN thread I've seen one person is talking about the benefits of tipping officials, and another commenting on how we've all broken laws anyways and that prosecution is mainly based on not "pissing off" the government. When did my country become third-world?
- a3n 9y agoWe're all third world. The saying about individuals probably applies to governments and corporations: Power (or money) doesn't change you, it just reveals who you are.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoSomeone bribing a hotel clerk and Attorney General being in the news for talking about enforcing a law that hasn't been enforced in a while is a very far cry from the way police pull you over for arbitrary reasons and routinely expect bribes in some other countries. They can technically be phrased in similar ways, but the US is hardly on par with, say, Zimbabwe in terms of corruption. My point is that the federal government can really screw people over when it chooses to. I'd still choose to live here than in most third-world countries, though.