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> "We liberated hardware" Ya know, I'm not on Flock's side here.. but be real, this is theft. You should be able to own that if you're going to do something li
by ktm5j 17d ago
> "We liberated hardware"
Ya know, I'm not on Flock's side here.. but be real, this is theft. You should be able to own that if you're going to do something like this.
- outside1234 17d agoAnd my privacy? The threat to democracy? Does Flock own that? Why is always the poors that need to own morality?
- intrasight 17d agoBut we own the cameras
- soupfordummies 17d agoThat's also the biggest plot-hole in the first Star Wars movie. Princess Leia is supposed to be this righteous noble of the moral resistance and yet she STEALS the Death Star plans!
- overtone1000 17d agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422404
- overtone1000 17d agoI don't get the impression that anyone writing about this thinks it's legal. I think the argument would be that it's justified.
- ktm5j 17d agoThen why bother using that language? The camera doesn't need rescuing, why not just "we took". Also, is it really justified? Did we learn anything useful here that we didn't already know? There's more effective ways to push back against Flock, townships (like my own) are having plenty of success stories without stealing anything.
- 0b4a1f8caa8b2a 17d agoAnything becomes permissible when you believe yourself to be “on the right side of history.”
- micromacrofoot 17d agoliberation is often used to refer to something that, while technically legal, the people that are subject to it did not agree to
- jkestner 17d ago“I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts.” - Luke O’Neil https://flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-after-2/ https://flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-after-2/
- IAmBroom 17d ago> You should be able to own that if you're going to do something like this. Um, are you saying the hackers should admit they broke the law? Or that Flock should righteously own the data they collect? Either way, I d/c. Flock cameras are probably insecure, and their data is potentially dangerous. Bad laws exist, and following them may be prudent at times, but the act of following them isn't a moral imperative.
- rconti 17d agoYou don't think maybe it's just a little bit tongue-in-cheek? Maybe a reference to how the US Military sometimes goes into foreign countries saying we'll be greeted as liberators?