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You know what Aaron's sin was? Greed. If he'd set this same thing up so that it would download JSTOR over the course of, say, two years, nobody would ever hav
by Vivtek 14y ago
You know what Aaron's sin was? Greed.
If he'd set this same thing up so that it would download JSTOR over the course of, say, two years, nobody would ever have been the wiser, we'd actually have that data today since it's actually been two years, and he'd still be alive.
But he had to have all the data NOW. I get it, I really do. He lost track of the goal in the excitement of the pursuit.
- peterwaller 14y agoI don't like the use of the word greed here. If you're going to liberate information, you have to be timely. And it would still have been a lot to download even over years, so whilst your proposal reduces the instantaneous bandwidth, the aggregate is still large and so still likely to be noticed. The longer that laptop is in the cupboard...
- rdl 14y agoHis sin was being in the middle of the barbell. Act fully legally and under your own name (or, only slightly illegally, and with the intention of being arrested and prosecuted as civil disobedience), or, act entirely covertly, unlinkable to your identity, and just get it accomplished. Doing things multiple times with risk that someone would set up surveillance is what exposed him. Buying a throwaway laptop for cash, wiping all prints, and hiding it somewhere off-video, waiting a few days, and then starting a slow-leech, uploading the content to some anonymous site, and then acting shocked about how someone copied what he'd done with PACER in this way, would have been a lot safer. $300 laptop is cost of doing business. ATM skimmers crews know this.
- ansible 14y agoI agree. After getting detected and stopped the first couple times, I would have preferred him to be a bit more clever. And certainly when it gets to the point you're worried about being identified via video surveillance, it is time to take a radically different approach.
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- josephlord 14y agoImpatience is a better word for what you are saying than greed. And I'm not sure I completely agree with your analysis but I doubt that you would have got the downvotes if you had used the word impatience.
- chris_wot 14y agoHe neither sinned, nor was he greedy.
- Vivtek 14y agoHe wasn't the Lord Jesus Christ, and he may not have been greedy for money, but damn straight he was greedy for knowledge. Aren't you? Aren't we all, here?
- rjknight 14y agoEven if you're right, the word you are looking for is "impatience", not "greed".