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Re:Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking A... by jacquesm on Saturday May 06, 2017 @11:50AM (#14280765)
What is so surprising about that? Societies operate largely on trust. Once you throw that out of the window you can do all kinds of things but you will mostly likely end up being found out and ostracized or jailed.

Just like any idiot with a kitchen knife can walk into a shopping mall and kill people hacking email accounts and servers is quite doable. The only reason it keeps on happening is because it is hard to catch the perpetrators.

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Re:Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking A... by libeclipse on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:13PM (#14280900)
Sorry, your point may be valid but I don't see how it relates to my comment.
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Re:Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking A... by jacquesm on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:23PM (#14280944)
The point is that any teenager can likely get into your house, burglarize you or murder you.

You could go and live in a vault, but that would take the fun out of living and so as a society we have dealt with this by making this illegal and the chances of getting caught are large enough that people tend to not do those things.

But if the chances of getting caught were near zero you might have to go and live in a vault.

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Re:Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking A... by libeclipse on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:32PM (#14280981)
That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about how teenagers can build systems resilient against these attacks, not that they carry out the attacks themselves. (Although I conjecture that a significant proportion of these attacks are also carried out by teenagers.)
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Re:Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking A... by jacquesm on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:36PM (#14281011)
It goes both ways doesn't it? Whether teenagers can set up a system more resilient than your average systems administrator is something that I doubt anyway. Most teenagers could not hack their way out of a wet paper bag, but then there are some that totally blow your mind. Just like with older folks. Age does not have much to do with it.
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