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Ask HN: HN and attacks
There is currently an entry in the New page,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542920 ,
that I find interesting and relevant to hackers.
Based on that I would upvote.
But the pastebin post in question contains not only a description of an attack on antivirus software and the bitcoin database, but also urges to carry out the attack.
Considering that, do we want to promote this?
I personally want information like this to keep showing up on HN, but I don't want that to negatively impact the antivirus- or bitcoin infrastructure in any significant way.
So do I upvote this, or flag it?
Is there an established community response?
- tptacek 13y agoI'm not a fan of any post that advocates that users break the law or cause harm to other people, but a bright-line rule might be "you'd flag a piece that misled readers into thinking some action was safe or harmless that would actually expose them to liability".