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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by fwn on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:57AM (#9699367)
Just that it's the internet. So it's more like parking your ferrari with open doors in Somalia.
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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by rayiner on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:00AM (#9699384)
Sure. But if someone hacks you or robs you, the media should place blame on the person who was actually malicious, not the one who was merely negligent

Also, I love that the Internet = Somalia.

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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by balabaster on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:09AM (#9699434)
This whole thread puts the image of Somalia being like something out of Mad Max... I've never been there, but I bet it's not like that at all.
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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by pluma on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:45PM (#9721193)
Somalia being a post-apocalyptic wasteland qualifies as a mesofact[0], I guess. Whether it actually ever was quite that bad I don't even know. I think the idea is mostly fed via movie tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173845

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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by fwn on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:04AM (#9725835)
In my argument I used Somalia as a metaphor to transport an idea of a certain type of hostile enviroment.

I don't see how - in this context - a debate on somalias current affairs can be seen as something other than derailing.

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Re:Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cos... by fwn on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:06AM (#9699414)
Oh, sure. I'm with you on that! I did not want to say the media shouldn't blame the attacker..
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