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Truly pathetic from DJI's side. And China, but that's to be expected at this point. They do not deserve to have white-hats find their vulns for them. > "I am d

Truly pathetic from DJI's side. And China, but that's to be expected at this point. They do not deserve to have white-hats find their vulns for them. > "I am done. I will go to jail, and I have to take this stain ... in my life. My girlfriend begin to break up with me, woooo, my family are broken. Fuck!!! What are terrible things! Maybe the only thing I can do now is to die; it is so hard. I need to be free.” This is horrifying. It honestly makes me feel sick for this poor developer. Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.

peterwwillis 8y ago
There's no reason to be that dramatic. The US often has worse impacts on people's lives. If you're poor and uneducated in this country, one mistake can lead to a lifetime of debt and a cycle of prisons, hospitals, mental health facilities, homeless shelters, and so on. There is no significant social safety net for a large swath of the population (we're talking tens of millions of people) and people's lives are often left in shambles by a system that doesn't operate on empathy. But also, this person is only facing six months and $30,000. That is no reason to consider suicide. Of course it sucks, but their life isn't over.
- sli 8y ago
  What does any of this have to do with a Chinese developer in China? This is just whataboutism.
  - throwaway55321 8y ago
    No, it’s perspective because he’s replying to the comment, “Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.”
throwaway55321 8y ago
This reminds me of Aaron Swartz‘s case.
- decoyworker 8y ago
  In which way? In the way that Aaron Swartz accidentally broke into a closed area and extracted copyrighted material and then apologized for being so clumsy?
  - ionwake 8y ago
    No he means in the way they pressured a young programmer into killing himself as retribution for just looking at some research papers. The similarity is the ott aspect. Feel free to ask more questions.
Havoc 8y ago
>Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society. That's exactly the direction modern society IS moving towards
gnode 8y ago
My understanding is that the conviction was for deliberately (disregarding the accused's claim to the contrary) publicly sharing his employer's proprietary source code and private keys. Assuming this is actually true, then it's justified that there are legal consequences for sabotaging his employer like this, and most countries have laws penalising such behaviour.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  Meanwhile, companies and governments are allowed to 'accidentally' expose all sorts of private information about millions of people without any meaningful punishment.
- londons_explore 8y ago
  DJI should take the majority of the blame for not protecting its private keys with hardware security modules.

peterwwillis 8y ago

There's no reason to be that dramatic. The US often has worse impacts on people's lives. If you're poor and uneducated in this country, one mistake can lead to a lifetime of debt and a cycle of prisons, hospitals, mental health facilities, homeless shelters, and so on. There is no significant social safety net for a large swath of the population (we're talking tens of millions of people) and people's lives are often left in shambles by a system that doesn't operate on empathy. But also, this person is only facing six months and $30,000. That is no reason to consider suicide. Of course it sucks, but their life isn't over.

sli 8y ago
What does any of this have to do with a Chinese developer in China? This is just whataboutism.
- throwaway55321 8y ago
  No, it’s perspective because he’s replying to the comment, “Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.”

throwaway55321 8y ago

This reminds me of Aaron Swartz‘s case.

decoyworker 8y ago
In which way? In the way that Aaron Swartz accidentally broke into a closed area and extracted copyrighted material and then apologized for being so clumsy?
- ionwake 8y ago
  No he means in the way they pressured a young programmer into killing himself as retribution for just looking at some research papers. The similarity is the ott aspect. Feel free to ask more questions.

Havoc 8y ago

>Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society. That's exactly the direction modern society IS moving towards

gnode 8y ago

My understanding is that the conviction was for deliberately (disregarding the accused's claim to the contrary) publicly sharing his employer's proprietary source code and private keys. Assuming this is actually true, then it's justified that there are legal consequences for sabotaging his employer like this, and most countries have laws penalising such behaviour.

craftyguy 8y ago
Meanwhile, companies and governments are allowed to 'accidentally' expose all sorts of private information about millions of people without any meaningful punishment.
londons_explore 8y ago
DJI should take the majority of the blame for not protecting its private keys with hardware security modules.