• Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, we all have to have a red line. Going after children’s data is a net negative. Hackers have all of these terrible companies to extort. No need to bring children into this.

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      “Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what’s been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history”

      He is a child, you fucking moron and your kind of vitriol just sent him off to get fucked five ways from friday in the US’s hellish prison system

      My red line is putting anyone in there while there are worse people dropping bombs on brown children.

      I guarantee if a child can get that data, someone else got it before him anyway and kept their mouth shut.

      Fuck your red line.

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        I didn’t say that being sent to prison was the desired outcome. But at the very least, there needs to be some amount of accountability involved.

        Also, chill out. Get some bud, and chill out.

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            2 days ago

            Thank you for your feedback. You really should take a chill pill. Your activism consists of shouting down anyone who doesn’t pass your purity test. Not a good look.

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              No, I think you’re a cruel person. Your priorities are all wrong. I do not wish on you the things you’re wishing on others, regardless of any actions you could take. I’m not cruel and vindictive.

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      Ok, then you agree that we should be protecting childrens data? So then something like a bug bounty would’ve been an overall plus here? Kid gets to test his skills, a new vulnerability in the system gets found, and everyone wins.

      The website was vulnerable, if he didnt do it someone more malicious wouldve. They shouldve offered a bug bounty if they actually cared about the data.

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        That would have been a better outcome, but unfortunately that is not what happened. The kid wasn’t on some altruistic journey, he hacked a company whose business is dealing with tens of millions of children’s data. Prison was not the only remedy available, and I don’t relish in the thought of sending a young person there. Could’ve been some deferred action in conjunction with a program that steered the teen back onto a track of help rather than theft.

        if he didn’t do it someone more malicious wouldve.

        Poor argument.