Sorry, that may be what you, as an idealist, think of it.

But destroying "the state" isn't necessarily a desirable thing.

Anarchy is not a form of government, nor is it a self-perpetuating.

It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.

Usually the entire process of teardown, chaos, and reformation involves lots and lots of people suffering and dying while people try to "get it right".

So please, take your bullshit rhetoric elsewhere.

*DING DING DING!*

And we have a winnah!

*Forks over a cigar*

What constitutes piracy in the purview of the survey?

Using software you didn't pay money for?

Filezilla: PIRATE!
Firefox: PIRATE!
Linux: PIRATE!
VPN Software licensed for you by your company? PIRATE!
Free antivirus suite? PIRATE!
A program you slapped together yourself? PIRATE!

It's so that Apple can have their own clean, friendly production facility so that Foxconn can stop disrupting work at their hellhole^H^H^H^slave camp^H^H^H^H^other sweatshops to comply with public inspections by people who'd be outraged by how they NORMALLY do business.

In other words, a facade, like everything else at Apple.

Nope. White as snow, from a decent middle-class suburb, but yeah. He's had some run-ins with the cops in Chicago. Like the one he beaned in the head with a bottle in the 2004 Gay Pride parade.

You're probably right. But the thing is, Hammond can't afford the kind of bail that'd be set in his case. His parents bailed him last time, and they can't afford to do so again.

At this point, he's better off riding out the time in his cell reading up for his defense. If he's lucky, the time he spends incarcerated will count against any sentence he's given.

*Facepalm*

Tolerance for idiocy only goes so far.

See what I mean about brainsick slobs ready to believe anything?

Ah. A snitch.

It's so wonderful to be distilled down to a single word.

Then no thought is required to actually think about what happened or what was done.

Also, a snitch implies that my interests and activities somehow aligned with those of Hammond.

Close but no cigar. I was interested in hacking from a social and security standpoint and the things it could teach me to keep myself and my clients safe.

He was just interested in breaking into (as well as just breaking) things to demonstrate e-peen. He wasn't really interested in who, what or why.

Then he attacked me. Personally. So I went to the authorities.

But hey, don't let ME change your preconception of this scumbag as some heroic Robin Hood.