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The moral of Aaron's death is not that everything should be legal. As snarfy pointed out, he granted access to systems of a "critical infrastructure" company wi
by omni 14y ago
The moral of Aaron's death is not that everything should be legal. As snarfy pointed out, he granted access to systems of a "critical infrastructure" company without any idea who would gain access. This is and should be criminal, as widespread economic and human damage could possibly result if these critical systems went down.
I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City. Oh, the humanity!
- thirdtruck 14y agoTwo weeks without electricity in the winter. People die like that.
- njharman 14y agoYou realize there are large swaths of humanity that have no electricity. And that in the past and even today humans survive winters in much colder places than NYC without electricity.
- pretoriusB 14y agoThousands of people have no electricity, running water OR HOME in New York all year round -- not just as a temporary inconvenience because of a storm. And hundreds of millions, nay billions, have no access to electricity or running water in the third world. Most of them have no access to food or doctors either.
- yo-mf 14y agoPoor thing, and was your latte not warm enough this morning? Please get off the soapbox, this guy is not a criminal and no one is suggesting that "everything should be legal".
- ttrt 14y agoYou're being rude. Anyway: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/tracking_tropics/21008929250886/power-out-at-nyc-hospital-200-patients-evacuate/ http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/tracking_tropics/210089292...
- leoedin 14y agoDisparaging comments aren't really constructive. You have no idea whether the guy's a criminal or not - that depends entirely on the circumstances surrounding the case. Surely it's in the best interest of society to ensure that allowing unvetted foreigners access to critical computer systems is illegal? Obviously the facts surrounding this case (which none of us know) determine whether this particular person is a criminal or not.