Re:Jonathan James and Aaron Swartz-Two Obituaries One Prosec...
by tptacek on Saturday May 23, 2015 @07:03PM
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The problem is that this situation sometimes (not always) demands that we apportion blame to both the perpetrator and the victim.
The perpetrator is always to blame, and their blame is obviously not mitigated by anything the victim does.
If the victim has a duty to protect the information lost, and the victim is negligent, they have an orthogonal culpability as well.
On message boards, it really seems like people have trouble holding these two thoughts together in their head at the same time. Of course, nerds like us on message boards have a cluster-headache of a persecution complex as well, which is ironic given that we're all making bank making everyone else's jobs disappear.
The perpetrator is always to blame, and their blame is obviously not mitigated by anything the victim does.
If the victim has a duty to protect the information lost, and the victim is negligent, they have an orthogonal culpability as well.
On message boards, it really seems like people have trouble holding these two thoughts together in their head at the same time. Of course, nerds like us on message boards have a cluster-headache of a persecution complex as well, which is ironic given that we're all making bank making everyone else's jobs disappear.