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Re:The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the Bri... by westiseast on Thursday May 15, 2014 @07:43PM (#7752958)
If you see an online service whose online security is terrible, do you (a) notify the company (b) hack them and privately inform them off the exploit or (c) hack them, steal all the data, sell it on the open market and make a million pounds, simultaneously disadvantaging millions of average customers?
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Re:The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the Bri... by AndrewBissell on Thursday May 15, 2014 @07:46PM (#7752974)
LOL, I can just imagine the scene now:

INTERIOR, HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY OFFICE

PHONE RINGS

SOROS: Hi, my name is George Soros, I'm a hedge fund manager and international speculator. I noticed that you're trying to prop up the British pound, but rather than try to profit from this, I figured I'd just call and give you guys the heads up that it's not going to work.

TREASURY OFFICIAL: Oh my God, you're right! We'll issue a public statement right away, admitting that we've been wrong and that we're putting an immediate end to the policy. Thanks so much for the warning, kind sir!

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Re:The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the Bri... by fabulist on Friday May 16, 2014 @03:08AM (#7754137)
"In light of this development, we're starting a Fiscal Policy Bug Bounty program...."
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Re:The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the Bri... by westiseast on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:57PM (#7753199)
Hahaha, they'd just say sorry a thousand times the mutter something about immigrants.
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Re:The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the Bri... by CocaKoala on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:05AM (#7753840)
A better comparison would be: You find an online blackjack service that uses pRNGs, and can reverse the state of their decks in real time. Do you (a) notify the company or (b) play a bunch of blackjack and clean out the house?

George Soros didn't hack anything or steal anything; he made use of publicly accessible information to make a gamble and he won big. The consequences of that win were certainly crummy for a whole bunch of people and it's terrible that a lot of innocent people were put in that position, but to compare Soros to a criminal is pretty disingenuous.

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