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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by meowface on Saturday July 02, 2016 @09:18PM (#12024445)
What they did at the time would still have definitely been illegal. Probably not any more illegal than it is now. I doubt they'd be prosecuted, but breaking into any system is illegal.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by itslennysfault on Saturday July 02, 2016 @09:54PM (#12024529)
I'd just be afraid I'd have rotten luck and wind up on the wrong person's computer (government, big business, etc) because they happened to be part of a bot net. (I'm not ready to move to Moscow quite yet)
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by iopq on Sunday July 03, 2016 @12:09AM (#12024782)
> I'm not ready to move to Moscow quite yet

Me neither, it's damn expensive

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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by SEJeff on Sunday July 03, 2016 @01:55AM (#12024971)
Well I'm sure they'll let you vacation for free... In the Siberian Gulags :)
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by ambivalence on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:50AM (#12025062)
Watch out. You laugh at this as if it's some Marvel Universe pop culture thing. In fact, some of the readers here have families that were sent to Siberia during or shortly after WW2. You wouldn't joke about concentration camps. I hope.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by fennecfoxen on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:08AM (#12025463)
Technically, my grandmother went to a camp that was west of proper Siberia. (Something about being family of a war hero in what they called the Polish-Bolshevik war.)
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by nicolas_t on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:01AM (#12025076)
Yes, this needs to be said. I've read stories about Siberian Gulags and they are really not something to joke about.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by siculars on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:37AM (#12025143)
My grandfather. 1936.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by SEJeff on Sunday July 03, 2016 @10:52AM (#12026204)
Uggg sorry if I offended anyone.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by justin66 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:02PM (#12026968)
People are being overly sensitive. Don't worry about it.
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by reitanqild on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:33PM (#12027094)
I don't think he was offended, just pointed out that it happened.

That said I found the original joke quite un-amusing and I think it didn't add much

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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by aquadrop on Sunday July 03, 2016 @11:33AM (#12026329)
Hitting people in the face is illegal; hitting people in the face in self-defense is legal. So... It would be interesting court case :)
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Re:How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox by pavel_lishin on Sunday July 03, 2016 @04:35PM (#12027507)
Following them back to their house, picking the lock on their door, walking into their bedroom and hitting them in their face is not legal.
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