Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by fooker on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:23PM (#43030884)

> Most people have an intuitive sense to ask themselves questions like "If I do this, will someone be harmed

How much time do you spend asking yourself whether your paycheck is coming from a source that causes harm? Or whether the code you have written will be used directly or indirectly to cause harm? Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by owl57 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @07:41PM (#43031464)

That's definitely a factor at least some people consider when choosing their job.

> Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic.

We're also responsible for great good. The question which is greater is tricky, case-by-case and subjective.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by efitz on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:40PM (#43031843)

I actually think about it a lot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862#42542151

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by fooker on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:15AM (#43033475)

Great, would you be surprised that most of us don't?

Most will just take the 500k paycheck and work at whatever the next big tech thing is.

There's some chance that thing is autonomous drones or something like that...

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