Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
by watwut on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:56AM
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Leaving the door open is risky only because there are people who steal around. Not because leaving the door would be risky no matter where you live and who is around.
If people locked bikes in garages, people eager to steal bikes would have tools to cut chains in garages. So while it is safer to lock the bike, the blame for stealing goes to whoever stole it.
Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
by JoshuaDavid on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:11PM
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The internet is a place where everyone, everywhere is "around". You can talk about who to blame all you want, but blaming the attackers just means that you'll be attacked by people who don't care if you blame them. It's not an effective way of solving the problem.
And remember that "the problem" is that the attackers hijacked the accounts of people using twitter. Twitter had a duty to take adequate measures to protect those accounts, and failed to do so. The victims are the people whose accounts were stolen, and the people who were defrauded by the hijacked accounts.
Certainly the burglar deserves the lion's share of the blame for what happened, but there's plenty to spread around.
My view is that if a reasonable person would have taken actions that would have avoided the issue in the first place, a person not taking those actions shares in the blame.
My bicycle got stolen from my garage a couple weeks ago. The garage was closed and locked, but someone forced the door at 4am and stole my bike. My bike was not locked to anything. My neighbor's bike was locked to a railing a few feet away from my bike, and did not get stolen. I share some of the blame here because if I had locked my bike up -- an entirely reasonable and prudent thing to do -- my bike would likely not have gotten stolen.
I think maybe the issue is because people are conflating blame with shame. No one should be shamed for stuff like this; it's a learning opportunity. I accept blame and responsibility for my part in my bike's theft, and if/when I get a new bike, I'll take better care to secure it, even when it's indoors.