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Comment Define hacktivist (Score 1) 337

I can allow that certain cases of hacking are vastly over-sentenced by the justice system. However, you've got to be more specific by what you consider a hacktivist before I consider them not a criminal. If you break into a system, steal data, and then flaunt the data as proof that the system's owner is incompetent, corrupt, insecure, whatever, then okay. If you also use some of that data (i.e. credit cards) to charge innocent / unsuspecting / unrelated people $700,000, even if it goes to charity, that's criminal behavior. You're not just a hacktivist anymore, sorry.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 1145

#5 She already took their pictures, she could tweet about the issue, bringing attention to it for the conference staff, then SHOW THEM the picture, instead of the world. Why does she need to identify the jokers to the world, via twitter, instead of just using it to confirm identity with the staff? That's the logical disconnect for me. If you read her account of what happened, after she meets with the staff to explain what happened, she has to go and point them out to the staff anyway. What use was there in posting the picture, other than defaming them?

Comment Re:funny how everyone 'wants' your phone # (Score 1) 185

That's true, but if your mom was a single mom, you most likely got her last name as your own, so it wouldn't be unique. Likewise, if your last name is Dad'sLastName-Mom'sLastName (or vice versa, or whatever), then your mom's maiden name is still a piece of your last name, so still not completely unique. This makes either case a bad identity verification tool.

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