https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774049

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565

Uh, I guess. Assuming prank calls are a "cyber attack" as well.

Edit: Okay...emailing awful images and videos then. It's rude and all, but "cyberattack" just isn't the right word. Put a password on your meeting.

What ruins police is their day is endlessly looking at these photos that each new photo is another child.. it can feel hopeless. You can't compare it to someone dropping a dick pic in your zoom sharing screen ruining you for life. Most people's mental state can handle a brief gross moment.

Humans are more robust to shock than our cozy modern world might have us think.

It is, like you said,the non-stop barrage of horror that crushes people.

I distinctly remember being a bit shocked when I was ~6-8 and my great-grandfather smacked the fish I'd just caught on the gunwales of our boat. sudden, violent, but I pretty quickly realized "well yeah, I guess you do have to kill the fish at some point".

Though I did get messed up by a Discovery channel documentary about spontaneous human combustion when I was a kid. Mostly because I didn't get to finish it.

I don't really think I said that, did I. You're either imagining something I didn't said or you're deliberately misrepresenting.

I said:

> Not the same as phoning someone.

And it's not the same. It's surely far more harmful to be able to show someone an image than just audio. You can literally do everything you can in audio in video, and then more.

You don't have to listen to me - I think you'll find that flashing someone is prosecuted more severely than an obscene phone call in most societies.

Also, threatening sexual violence is never a 'prank' - don't do that.

I can email awful images to you too.

Not saying it means that is OK, but the decision is not clear cut either.

E.g. random definition pulled from merriam webster dictionary:

> an attempt to gain illegal access to a computer or computer system for the purpose of causing damage or harm

One can argue that there's not enough focus on the attack on a system here, but I'm not surprised it's used that way.

However, it is almost certain that default public was a key contributor to meteoric rise.

I can see why K-12 teachers would be worried about it but I teach college and if it happened in one of the classes I teach I would probably laugh.

Do people like this have nothing better to do with their lives than making the world a terrible place for everyone else? This is getting ridiculous.

I often hear people say that there are more good people than bad in the world, and that the bad are often over-represented: that's just wishful thinking.

I held a retail job for a little over 3 years before escaping, in quite a well-off town, which was known for being "such a nice place". It would be excessively generous to say that 20% of the people that would come through our doors were decent human beings; even now I can still remember the faces of all of the "good" customers because they were so few and far between that encountering them was almost a shock. A majority of our customers were bitter, rude, cruel, and painfully indignant and self-unaware.

Nothing like picking up a pile of clothes in a changing room covered in feces to brighten up your day.

So we can call it vandalism then. And I would certainly ask my guests for some reparations if they defecated on my clothes/floor and then walked out like nothing happened, and I certainly would not invite them back!