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Consider not taking advantage of the illegal compromise of someone else's servers, even if you are very interested in the contents of their purloined data. You
by patio11 13y ago
Consider not taking advantage of the illegal compromise of someone else's servers, even if you are very interested in the contents of their purloined data. You'd hate it if it happened to your startup, and odds are your startup has plenty of ways to get into equally private data. If nothing else, consider it your moral down payment on being able to criticize the NSA ever again.
- vbuterin 13y agoExcept that MtGox is known to with very high probability have been acting criminally dishonestly and there is a strong public interest in helping people determine what happened and recover what could potentially be up to 200000 of their own bitcoins. That pretty much passes all the standard tests for an involuntary violation of privacy; this is NOT a case of hurting an innocent startup.
- patio11 13y agoThat sounds like an excellent reason for a judge in Tokyo to issue a subpoena. It does not sound like an excellent reason for the Internet to vicariously participate as a group of Russian hackers roots their boxes.
- simias 13y agoWho are you talking to exactly? The hackers? I doubt they care. HN readers? How are we taking advantage of anything exactly?
- scotty79 13y agoThe thing with NSA is not about privacy. It's about goverment violating it en masse in vastly useless and potentially malicious even Orwellian schemes. I don't mind hackers doing what they must because they can. I consider them force for good when they get into rich and poweful peoples drawers and publish things. It's a reminder that no matter how rich you are and how many laws you have bought you are never outside of public scrutiny.