Deep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoA hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn themwww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down13
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkA hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn themwww.abc.net.auDeep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoSo a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking? A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking? “Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking? And the gopher magistrates are absolutely furious, I tell you!
So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?
“Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.
And the gopher magistrates are absolutely furious, I tell you!