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by cbsmith 2y ago
Breaking and entering requires the use of force. Absent that, it is trespass. The claim was that individuals suffer bigger consequences than people. The person involved was not fined $10 million. AFAIK, they were not prosecuted criminally.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
To be clear: I agree it was hacking. I'm saying that aside from the IP theft angle, this kind of hacking doesn't usually get heavy handed consequences for individuals. AFAIK, the individual involved was not prosecuted criminally.
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Yeah, trying to decide if this is a fight between two companies or a real thing.
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No, they'd have called it trespassing. That's the point I think I'm making.
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Let's put it this way: we wouldn't call it hacking if he had held on to his badge/keys to the building and got the information that way.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
If he'd kept a key or badge and got the information that way, no one would call it hacking.
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That hack impacted 1.5 times the population of the United States? I think you're conflating events.
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A former employee taking IP with them is usually considered to be IP theft more than hacking, and that's basically what happened.
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Based on the reporting I've seen, I don't believe that information was part of the leak.
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The particulars of the case matter. Describing it as "hacking" is more than a bit misleading.
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> One of the main reasons I feel so strongly about topics like this is that I think we're sleepwalking into authoritarianism, if we haven't already arrived. So take your comment - that the government surveilling places where th
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Defense in depth. It's a thing. You're right there are things you cannot or should not do. Surveilling communications where there is no expectation of privacy does not strike me as falling into that category. Surveilling the town
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Yeah, SS7 was not really designed for the scenarios it now finds itself in (hell, I remember my dad talking to me about it back in the 80's). It's amazing how well it works, but that's exactly the context where one expects to
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by cbsmith 2y ago
There have been intelligence leaks through games before, and chat groups... you just have to assume anything you aren't surveilling will be used.
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So a double boiler?
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> Figuring out how to do the feature is usually part of the 'planning' and 'grooming' activities which are 'invisible work' with timeboxed team meeting slots allocated to it, even though a well-thought out i
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Part of the joy of a dysfunctional organization is how that dysfunction shows in how they adopt processes. If you're an experienced scrum practitioner and you don't have criticisms of scrum, that's unusual enough I find it
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> I don't need to heed the article because actually I pay attention where attention is deserved, that is, to the studies. If you had any, you would've shared them by now, which is to say you don't have any, and therefore y
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> No, there is no problem because the people who dismiss the study are the same hypocrites who would've accepted the study if the results had been reversed. Have you read the article? I'd presume you'd have, but this comme
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The article mentions that first one explicitly, and highlights the problematic aspects with interpreting studies without the relevant expertise.
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> Should we build a road is a classic political choice because people disagree even if it’s generally a net positive. Should we prosecute a murderer may qualify if there’s some twist (ex stand your ground) but not in the general case. Wh
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Agreed. It largely immaterial to the issue. I'm curious though, what political appointees in the DOJ do you see evidence of making decisions to drop or pick up specific cases?
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The independence of the DOJ has always been perceived as important. A lot of ink was spilt about this during the Trump administration, as they attempted to undermine these norms (e.g.: https://www.americanprogress.org/articl
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yes, the administration can change policies, but dropping cases is another matter. Certainly policy changes can have an effect on cases, but it's not like cases get dropped at some dramatic rate when a new administration comes in.
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The political leadership generally can't fire civil servants for that reason. When Trump was in office, he complained about it a lot, and key part of Project 2025's policy plans are to get the rules on that changed: https:/&
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Which is on the low side for an entertainment software company. Also worth noting that most of their Ticketing growth is coming from international markets, where they aren't at all a monopoly, and yet the margins there are the same...
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Particularly for the local music scene, where Live Nation usually isn't the promoter, the junk fees aren't coming from them. Gotta remember Ticketmaster's margins are actually pretty thin.
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I'm theory, prosecutions are a civil service function, not a political function. Changes in administration might change the leadership and what areas are prioritized, but once you have a case, it really shouldn't matter who is in
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Antisemites (really, any hate group) are indefatigable. :-(
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Also the reddit version of the story: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/comment/gnvzi...

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