Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak

Re:Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak by andrewfong on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:33PM (#6741194)

I don't really buy that. If you think that the collection and insecure storage of confidential information is a problem, you don't "fix" the problem by releasing all of that confidential information to WikiLeaks. And you certainly don't make over a million dollars in fraudulent credit card transactions.

The moral justification is really just: (1) Stratfor does work for the powers that be; (2) the powers that be are bad; therefore (3) hacking Stratfor hurts bad people.

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Re:Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak by ThrowFarAway on Friday November 15, 2013 @05:05PM (#6742472)

I know you're just clarifying it and not necessarily advocating it, but just want to state that it's a pretty lousy justification. For example:

(1) Mike Smith pays taxes to the powers that be, and therefore works 3-4 months out of the year for the powers that be; (2) The powers that be are bad; Therefore (3) murdering Mike hurts bad people.

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