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Re:Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by... by meheleventyone on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:09PM (#29580590)
I found someone's car keys in the street this morning. I'm pretty sure that didn't entitle me to their car.
Re:Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by... by Jerrrry on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:20PM (#29580756)
No, because keys for a car and keys for a wallet are wholly different, and even then, picking a lock (bruteforcing a keyspace) isn't comparable, because the value, intent, and purpose of a car is not in its properties of being able to be transferred, transmitted, and it's future value increasing (although that last one is true incidentally), but it is primarily used to get from A to B.

If you found a gift card with the PIN in the street, it would entitle you to a moral inhibition. If you went through a stack of discarded gift cards and found ones with change, you would be less morally wrong, but just as legally right.

Finding a debit card in the street with the PIN is akin to finding someone's wallet.dat file on their github. That is stealing, so no comparison.

Re:Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by... by laserlight on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:40PM (#29596371)
Thanks for these analogies. People unfortunately want the new technologies to be an exact replacement of the status quo. There’s no reason for it to be the case and the way these technologies work may make it infeasible to enforce the rules of the status quo.