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Ironically you are trying to censor hacking from hacker news. If you follow the point logically then surely you feel the same about the entire scope of compute
by rkachowski 7y ago
Ironically you are trying to censor hacking from hacker news.
If you follow the point logically then surely you feel the same about the entire scope of computer security - "If it can be abused, then it must be flagged and removed", no?
I feel that this is a dangerous attitude that promotes ignorance and forbidden knowledge.
- tomc1985 7y agoAye, has parent read any hacking zines?
- ConcernedCoder 7y agoThis is not "hacker" news, as in illegal hacking, this is hacker news as in the old-school definition of hacking whereby you'd self-learn and figure things out... the word hacker in this context doesn't condone illegal activities
- tastroder 7y ago> whereby you'd self-learn and figure things out Which the author of this submission did. Fearmongering about the unethical motives one might have about a vulnerability that is now about two decades old seems pretty pointless. I don't particularly enjoy the hackfluencer style of writing of the post or condone what it's supposed to do but it's at least an interesting read. Let's face it, you can get an ESP deauth image in 5 minutes if you have malicious intent, you wouldn't bother to go into the depth the author did here, which makes it interesting and imho relevant to this site.