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There's a difference between 'The site may go down and 'This person I don't know will overreact and accuse us of terrorism'. Why don't we discuss the reality of

• darkarmani 14y ago
  The site goes down because of a distributed "attack" in the wake of Aaron's death. Coordinating a distributed denial of service attack (as characterized in the worst possible light) is not a legal activity. Less crazy charges have been brought for other "hacking" activities. Accessing "hidden" URLs has been called unauthorized access; deep linking or just linking to something like deCSS has been likened to a crime; port scanning has been legally attacked a few times. If these same type of people think URLs are a crime, I don't think the scenario I described is that bizarre. Look up that news story about the guy in a glider near a nuclear plant (he was catching a thermal from the lake) -- there was never a no fly zone, but officials actually considered shooting him down! Instead they held him for 24 hours while his loved ones started a search for his glider. They dropped the charges only after he agreed not to sue them!
  • Permit 14y ago
    My point isn't "It can't happen". My point is "Why don't we discuss things as they are, not as they may or may not be some time in the future?".
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