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Hacking should not be illegal? So if someone hacks a bank and steals money from people--totally legal?

• DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
  it's up to the bank to provide a secure service. Also if you get hacked as a business a couple of times your insurance premiums will go up. In the same vein shoddy IoT devices (and I argue anything that is online) should be fair game exactly so that things have a chance to become more secure. BrickerBot (e.g. Janit0r) had the right ideas here ... Even Japan got inspired by Brickerbot and knocked many devices offline last year which have become unservicable and posed too great a liability. If it were really about providing secure services then we'd be holding companies responsible, and even encouraging hackers to clean up those systems by hacking them. But it isn't about security so instead we're criminalizing hackers and engage in security-theater.
  • azernik 7y ago
    Responsibility and liability are not zero-sum. You can put the thief in jail, and also sue the pants off the bank for negligence.