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Ars Technica wants to be Wired :-( Please leave the poor, sensationalised writing to Wired and stick to the short news stories we know and love.
by lotsofcows 13y ago
Ars Technica wants to be Wired :-(
Please leave the poor, sensationalised writing to Wired and stick to the short news stories we know and love.
- hollerith 13y agoThis story did not get sensationalistic. None of the people were celebrities for example. There was no violence. And the nature of the embarassing pictures at the center of the extortion was not elaborated on at all except to say that they were sexual in nature and concerned the primary victim, his former girlfriend and that girlfriend's new boyfriend. It was about a pretty ordinary cybercrime. I do not understand what is "poor" about it: is cybercrime unworthy of the attention of the reading public? Why?
- MichaelGG 13y agoI think they were referring to the style of writing, down to the headline. FBI "cracked" a plot. "mastermind". The whole description of the oh-too-cool FBI people breaking into a guy's house to get, as the story says, the guy to "own up". Threatening him about pissing her off, all "24" style. Come the hell on. It's not all Ars fault, the FBI likes to make their mundane bullying look fearsome and cool. That, despite being the FBI and having the full cooperation of Microsoft, they still need to resort to physical violence to get some smalltime idiot blackmailer. Jeez.