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So the same people who support Silk Road and black markets suddenly say, "Yeah, Fuck Kevin Mitnick!" because he's a capitalist and using essentially the same sy

• Jtsummers 12y ago
  > So the same people who support Silk Road and black markets suddenly say, "Yeah, Fuck Kevin Mitnick!" because he's a capitalist and using essentially the same system to make some money?? Who says it's the same people? Because it's people on the same site? If you treat the commenters here as a single entity you'll really hurt your head trying to make sense of the HN consensus. There often isn't one because so much of this boils down to opinions about and attitudes towards governments, economics, personal responsibility, corporate responsibility, and laws.
• aric 12y ago
  Yes. You make it sound like people can't hold multiple opinions. A person can simultaneously believe the drug war is unethical while believing that selling (rather than openly revealing) 0day exploits is unethical. The difference is that most of those people are not calling for any government interference. Otherwise that would be humorous given that governments and their no-trace-back shell companies are the largest clients. They simply disagree ethically through free speech.
• andreasvc 12y ago
  Just because libertarians may hold the opinion that the government should not regulate things like this does not mean they cannot think that selling exploits to the highest bidder is a deplorable thing to do.