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> "Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anyth

• prepend 8y ago
  It took me too many paragraphs until I realized he wasn’t being snarky and ironic. It’s interesting reading these posts where the facts are agreed too and the value systems produce very different viewpoints. I read this and thought these were positives. The ability to view library info and history is likely understood by the consenting posters. I expected some evidence of misuse rather than the typical “in the hands of a criminal” type hypotheticals where paper reading history might help some spear phishing attack. This reminded me of the 2010 “if you post your vacation pictures to twitter thieves might more easily rob you.” I mean, that did happen, but it was rare and posters were aware of that small risk.