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I can see a scenario in which a "chaotic good" hacker uses a customized form of ransomware on some large corporation or extremely wealthy person in order to for
by mathlover2 4y ago
I can see a scenario in which a "chaotic good" hacker uses a customized form of ransomware on some large corporation or extremely wealthy person in order to force them to make a donation or do some majorly positive action for the world.¹ Pulling this off without going against the "good" qualification would require appropriately selecting the target and files to encrypt, and appropriately phrasing the demands made to that target: you want to choose a target that has a lot of unused money to give, you have to make sure that the files tied up are not things that other, more disadvantaged people would need, and you want to make sure that the requested positive action is both positive and not reversible by the other party after the fact.
Needless to say, deploying the ransomware discussed in the link would not be a chaotic good act. More like neutral or chaotic evil.
¹ And just to be clear, don't actually do this. I'm never going to do this, never have done this, certainly am not doing it at the moment, and I advise that no one else actually do this. There are better ways to use your time.
- temp8964 4y ago> "do some majorly positive action for the world" What can Jeff Bezos do more positive than creating Amazon? What can Elon Musk do more positive than creating Tesla and SpaceX? etc. etc.
- oehpr 4y ago/s?
- sodality2 4y ago> What can Jeff Bezos do more positive than creating Amazon? Donating
- temp8964 4y agoLoL. Where does he donate hundred billions to can create something like Amazon? The federal government spend 10billions every day.
- sodality2 4y agoMaybe it's not about "creating something like Amazon" but rather helping people. There's more to "positive creations" than companies, in fact, if you asked a random person to rank "making Amazon" or "donating to charity" in terms of positivity, 9/10 would choose charity..
- temp8964 4y agoCreating Amazon is helping people, billions of people. If you don't understand this, this discussion is pointless. Let's just forget about it.
- sodality2 4y agoI do understand that. You asked what more could he do. It is factually true that donating would be an additional positive impact that he would have on the world. If you don't understand that, this discussion is pointless