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by victorf 13y ago
That's not a crime, which is why I asked you to point out the appropriate legal code. You are now considered a troll. Have a nice day.
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by victorf 13y ago
I like the idea of a blockchain for it, the only downside would be using all that space.
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by victorf 13y ago
Do you not feel that, due to the security failure in 2011, they are one of the worst? I typically disable their certificate on my machines. The CA system is totally flawed anyway, I don't know why I bother.
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by victorf 13y ago
The law requires intent and a crime . If you cannot tell me which specific crime, your argument is invalid. Why you are having a hard time understanding that "we put him in jail because we don't like what he did" is wrong I
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by victorf 13y ago
If you can figure out the enemy dog is a fire type, you can switch your team up accordingly :) Is state-of-the art for that kind of recognition deep learning?
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by victorf 13y ago
Please show me the section of US legal code regarding intentional access of data one knows one should not be accessing; without mentioning trespass, which he did not do, and without mentioning causing a computer to act in a manner the owner
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by victorf 13y ago
He didn't exploit it or sell it and he's fucked. We're ignoring intent because a crime has yet to be committed. Intent doesn't matter without a crime. If intent is the only dividing line, you are in favor of thoughtcrime
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by victorf 13y ago
I know the US has decided to start prosecuting thoughtcrimes, such as jokes on FB, but that's actually unconstitutional. Accessing a server is not a crime, the user agent is not meant for authorization, and what he did was immoral, not
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by victorf 13y ago
If you've used both you can tell that UIKit is the version 2 or 3 of AppKit, there are many things where UIKit is pleasant to use and AppKit is irritating for similar things.
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by victorf 13y ago
(The Voyager doctor was a pretty good character) It is absurd. Everyone complaining about the wait is asserting implicitly that they need to be allowed to get their healthcare before anyone they are able to outbid. Personally, yes, I want e
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by victorf 13y ago
Why would we want an analogy that more accurately reflects the reality of the situation? We're trying to justify this, not let him out on appeal.
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by victorf 13y ago
sneak you're one of the few "true Americans" (as in when people talk about upholding freedom above all else) and unless I remember your posts wrong, you've had to leave the country to feel free. It's truly a sad sta
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by victorf 13y ago
If knowing that you are doing something immoral makes it a crime why isn't all of Wall Street in prison?
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by victorf 13y ago
Both of your scenarios are inapplicable because physically entering a property is totally unlike communicating with a public machine in the way it was intended to be communicated with.
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by victorf 13y ago
That's an actual CFAA crime because you have literal unauthorized access to the laptop. No further explanation necessary.
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by victorf 13y ago
I like your analogy. Exactly what crime would you be charged with after calling with SSNs? He committed thoughtcrime, sure, but let's wait until he attempts to follow through with it before charging him.
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by victorf 13y ago
Sounds like you were authorized; if that happened and you read the book what crime would you be charged with? Seriously. Taking advantage of a worker with intent to learn secrets? Totally immoral, not illegal.
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by victorf 13y ago
How he did it absolutely does matter. He did not know what he was doing was illegal because that is the expected interaction with an HTTP server. He certainly knew it was immoral but we give Wall Street a pass on that. Suppose I write a scr
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by victorf 13y ago
Again completely wrong because trespassing on the staff lounge is nothing like receiving a response from an HTTP server. It is like asking for the Chinese menu and being given a list of customer records. EDIT: and then noticing what happene
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by victorf 13y ago
NYC actually has an epidemic of persons unlawfully looking through the pockets of black men and I think that should be attended to before restaurant reviews.
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by victorf 13y ago
Because your taxes are so high that people who might otherwise be able to afford a private jet now cannot? Not having a jet is quite embarrassing and really harms the jet-less that have to fly in merely first class.
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by victorf 13y ago
Of course the proper way to order surgeries is to give priority to the wealthy persons so they can quickly get on with creating jobs. Lazy poors aren't going to do anything significant anyway, so they can wait eight or nine months and
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by victorf 13y ago
So because there was some thoughtcrime regarding actual criminal activity we should accept the prosecution for scraping the website? No. Prosecute him for identity theft if and after he commits it.
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by victorf 13y ago
No, it is because lying about your user-agent is not explicitly trying to make an HTTP server perform an action it is not supposed to perform and is therefore not in the same category as SQL injections. HTTP servers are not supposed to use
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by victorf 13y ago
I upvoted immediately after your first two sentences, and wished I could do it again at the end of your post. Well done. I've been trying to think of a proper analogy to changing your user agent. Wearing a fake mustache and requesting
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by victorf 13y ago
I've been curious because I was thinking of doing something that would host content; is it a legal nightmare if someone uploads illegal material? Is it common?
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by victorf 13y ago
I prefer to have no input from that site whatsoever. Particularly after I read them and their commenters celebrating an actual assault on someone who made a tasteless comment. They only care about victim blaming in specific circumstances, i
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by victorf 13y ago
Citing the Google Chrome Security team regarding security is the exact opposite of the appeal to authority fallacy. It's an appropriate expert for the context.
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by victorf 13y ago
I disagree that "cowardly" is the appropriate adjective and suggest "pragmatic" instead.
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by victorf 13y ago
My opinion, and I think I got this from Patrick indirectly if not directly, is that you need to be selling something to people that will cause them to receive more money than your product costs. So you cannot target language learners (espec

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