Re:Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
by spedru on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:08AM
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Yes. This is exactly what I meant. Didn't mean to come off as obscure, sorry, I'm a little out of it and English isn't my best language on a good day. I meant to tack a “distributed” onto that “panopticon”. A bunch of perverts scattered around tech companies might make for a convincing “actor” to bring up to ordinary people who think talking about government agencies is too crazy-sounding. As for the intelligence bit, I mean to say, “engineers are typically high-IQ, high-IQ people get away with crimes, imagine how many creeps have gotten away with this sort of thing and we'll never know”.
Re:Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:14AM
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> At least, that's as charitably as I can characterize the comment.
That implies there's an uncharitable characterization. What would that be?
Spedru posits the covert and exposed deviants within companies, that we've exchanged our data with, are another style of entity (besides state actors) that we ought to strive to deprive of access to that data.
At least, that's as charitably as I can characterize the comment.