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> If you hack and then publish embarrassing material to the whole world it's a public service. By that definition, hacking a celebrity's iCloud account and lea
by nitemice 7y ago
> If you hack and then publish embarrassing material to the whole world it's a public service.
By that definition, hacking a celebrity's iCloud account and leaking their nudes is a public service. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
- pytester 7y ago"on the government". Regardless, hacking a celebrity's icloud account and releasing the images is still more journalism than it espionage.
- Nasrudith 7y agoWell it depends on how straight our heads on are for what we consider embarrassing. That "a human has a naked body" is embarrassing while "detaining suspects indefinitely without a trial and torturing them while using an utter bullshit pretext of a loophole which wouldn't survive an unbias court" isn't says a lot of things about us and none of them good.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoOnly with a very disingenuous reading of the parent comment out of context can you imagine the definition was intended to imply in a case of hacking someone’s private life.