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What a Wally. What purpose did it serve doing this?

komali2 4y ago
Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP. Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!
- dekken_ 4y ago
  > doing it with javascript is a felony Wut
  - danuker 4y ago
    I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
    - some_furry 4y ago
      They could also be talking about the Apple email leak caused by incrementing an UUID. There's probably other notable cases with the same failure mode. One of the things you learn working in computer security: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
      - dekken_ 4y ago
        > history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I do like Mark Twain
        some_furry 4y ago
        Ah, yeah, that's where I heard it from first. Thanks!
      - borski 4y ago
        weev and AT&T as well.
      - mrguyorama 4y ago
        Nah history in information security repeats daily. How many unsecured mongodb databases exposed to the internet and unsecured S3 buckets did we see? Credentials have been committed to github so often that Github chose to build an automated alert system on their own dime that you don't even have to sign up for. How many times have lastpass and Experian been breached? How often do we STILL see sql injection attacks, a problem that has been actually solved for decades?
  - ossner 4y ago
    Perhaps in reference to the judyrecords fiasco: https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technologies https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol... No one was actually sent to jail, but the proprietor of the site was dragged through the media as a dangerous hacker and felon.
  - More-nitors 4y ago
    you should do it with Typescript
- kleiba 4y ago
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  - asdfghjkuytrf 4y ago
    two wrongs dont make one rigth
  - Nurw 4y ago
    Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?
    - kleiba 4y ago
      No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.
      - akimball 4y ago
        Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
        staringback 4y ago
        The crimes that were written into law by democratically elected representatives?
        washadjeffmad 4y ago
        Are they though? Bernie Sanders wasn't even allowed to debate as a popular presidential candidate because he didn't have a corporate sponsor or Super PAC funding. If voters are only choosing amongst candidates put forth by the establishment, and the establishment relies on funding and support from special interests, then democratically elected is somewhat different than democratically selected, isn't it?
        4y ago

Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP. Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!

dekken_ 4y ago
> doing it with javascript is a felony Wut
- danuker 4y ago
  I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
  - some_furry 4y ago
    They could also be talking about the Apple email leak caused by incrementing an UUID. There's probably other notable cases with the same failure mode. One of the things you learn working in computer security: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
    - dekken_ 4y ago
      > history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I do like Mark Twain
      - some_furry 4y ago
        Ah, yeah, that's where I heard it from first. Thanks!
    - borski 4y ago
      weev and AT&T as well.
    - mrguyorama 4y ago
      Nah history in information security repeats daily. How many unsecured mongodb databases exposed to the internet and unsecured S3 buckets did we see? Credentials have been committed to github so often that Github chose to build an automated alert system on their own dime that you don't even have to sign up for. How many times have lastpass and Experian been breached? How often do we STILL see sql injection attacks, a problem that has been actually solved for decades?
- ossner 4y ago
  Perhaps in reference to the judyrecords fiasco: https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technologies https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol... No one was actually sent to jail, but the proprietor of the site was dragged through the media as a dangerous hacker and felon.
- More-nitors 4y ago
  you should do it with Typescript
kleiba 4y ago
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- asdfghjkuytrf 4y ago
  two wrongs dont make one rigth
- Nurw 4y ago
  Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?
  - kleiba 4y ago
    No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.
    - akimball 4y ago
      Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
      - staringback 4y ago
        The crimes that were written into law by democratically elected representatives?
        washadjeffmad 4y ago
        Are they though? Bernie Sanders wasn't even allowed to debate as a popular presidential candidate because he didn't have a corporate sponsor or Super PAC funding. If voters are only choosing amongst candidates put forth by the establishment, and the establishment relies on funding and support from special interests, then democratically elected is somewhat different than democratically selected, isn't it?
        4y ago