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Meh, if anything, Denino's stream exposes how poor our systems are in general. For example, how trivial it is to leverage our militarized police with a fake ca
by always_good 8y ago
Meh, if anything, Denino's stream exposes how poor our systems are in general.
For example, how trivial it is to leverage our militarized police with a fake call. With no effort to vet the call, they'll happily drive over to your house and shoot your dog or ground the plane for five hours.
Or Yelp where anyone can organize to nuke the ratings of a single place. (Yelp and Steam, two examples I know of, have recently put systems in place to filter out mass 1-star spam)
You're barking up the wrong tree if you think this is a "people will do anything for views" problem. And the examples you cite of people getting criminally charged for stealing stop signs and brandishing arms sound like system successes. They don't seem relevant
It's like getting upset that people use CloudFlare instead of realizing how hilariously vulnerable our internet still is to things like IP address spoofing and the fact that your IoT toaster can be nuking a website without you, the owner, realizing it. I bet you'd notice if it showed up on your bill. Maybe you'd think twice about buying in to IoT devices next time (incentives are now aligned!).
Maybe it's time to ask why our systems are so vulnerable to abuse. Getting mad at abusers and their incentives isn't going to fix the problem because they will always exist.
To suggest otherwise is to suggest that our systems should depend on the Deninos of the world not existing, and that should give you a good, long chuckle.
- jm__87 8y agoHistorically, human beings have kept people like these pranksters in check by heaping shame and guilt on them along with a punishment. This is just how all societies have always worked. Your attitude that shame and guilt don't work and that we should drop this strategy in favor of something else is what is concerning to me.