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It would be pretty short-sighted to reward such an individual.
by ObscureScience 6y ago
It would be pretty short-sighted to reward such an individual.
- exporectomy 6y agoWould it? Hacking on the internet is pretty much immune to conventional systems that keep people honest, like being able to be caught and prosecuted or social norms. I think it's more useful to see hackers as like a force of nature to defend against but which it's useless to try to do any moralizing about. The more hacking that happens, the more secure computers will (hopefully) be made in defense, and the less vulnerable to future hacks. Hopefully it's not an endless arms race and eventually we figure out standard ways to keep things secure as a result.
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- hombre_fatal 6y agoI’ve already had to reward the government and credit bureaus to get access to my data. I don’t see anything too different about rewarding this hacker just because the law doesn’t bless this sort of data extortion like it does the rest.