Re:A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
by jessaustin on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:09PM
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As TFA describes it, the first deletion last year by the heroic hacker actually interrupted another hacker's access to the data. Why hadn't that other hacker deleted it? Maybe he enjoyed having access to private pictures and communications of children, teens, and adults... Does that sound like a good situation?
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Re:A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
by jim_dow_jones on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:28AM
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No, that doesn't sound like a good situation. You want to know some other big companies that have been hacked? - LinkedIn, MySpace, Adobe, Dropbox, DailyMotion, Sony, Kickstarter, Equifax... ad infinitum. Do these companies also deserve to have their data deleted?
Re:A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
by jessaustin on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:22AM
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None of those firms collected private pictures without consent. All of them actually made some attempt to fix their vulnerabilities when notified. Any one of them that allowed random strangers to delete their data "deserved" to have that done. No firm has a right to success in business.