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  • I think it’s all performative bullshit, not good policy.

    Some decision maker has to appear innovative to his superiours, so he decides to have some number of locations assigned to a trial group and some bullshit installed. Even if it fails, just as long as he finds the right moment to start appearing critical of the experiment he can still pull off his play. After all moving fast and failing fast are also virtue in modern corporate bullshit lingo.




  • They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

    While I agree with you in principle, this guy in particular didn’t have a lucky birth. His parents were not aristocrats, his father is a felon and didn’t stick around, his mother raised him alone at first. His grandparents on the mothers side are divorced and his grandpa is also a felon.

    However when he was four and a half his mother married into the royal house. So he would have had a privileged upbringing from then on. So he’s still super fucked up, to piss it into the wind with violent crime.










  • I’d start with the following, and refine if necessary:

    “Gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer resource by technical means.”

    • Port scanning --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained*
    • Using default passwords that weren’t changed --> Not hacking because the resource wasn’t protected*
    • Sending spam --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained
    • Beating the admin with a wrench until he tells you the key --> Not hacking because it’s not by technical means.
    • Accessing teacher SSN’s published on the state website in the HTML --> Not hacking because the resource wasn’t protected, and on the contrary was actively published**
    • Distributed denial of service attack --> Not hacking because there isn’t any access to resources gained

    * Those first two actually happened in 2001 here in Switzerland when the WEF visitors list was on a database server with default password, they had to let a guy (David S.) go free
    ** The governor and his idiot troupe eventually stopped their grandstanding and didn’t file charges against Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, luckily