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"Extralegal channels"...um right. DDoS'ing someones site is illegal. Hacking into someones site is illegal. Regardless of whether you think the legal system wor
by sigzero 16y ago
"Extralegal channels"...um right. DDoS'ing someones site is illegal. Hacking into someones site is illegal. Regardless of whether you think the legal system worked for you, they are still wrong. It isn't right period. You would have to have a screwed up ethical compass to think otherwise. Try moving that view to other portions of the law. Oh wait...it fails there too.
- Fargren 16y agoAre you saying that everything that is illegal is wrong? I'm not sure I'm reading that right, but if that's what you are saying, I have to disagree. In many cases what's right and what's legal are, at the very least, orthogonal. in some cases, they are opposite.
- xnerdr 16y agoIts been argued by some that a DDOS is equivalent to standing in a shop doorway and may be an appropriate form of protest. Protest being something that is perfectly legal.
- eropple 16y agoLots of dumb things are argued by a lot of dumb people. If you stand in a shop doorway where I live, you are escorted off the premises by the police. You can protest outside, but you can't screw with people trying to go about their daily lives. As it should be.
- quanticle 16y agoThe fact that something is illegal doesn't make it wrong, just like the fact that something is legal doesn't make it right. Laws are supposed to reflect ethics, not the other way around. Unfortunately, many of our laws have no relation to what is ethically right, and are used by corporations as billy clubs to batter anyone who causes them the least bit of embarrassment.