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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by hughw on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @10:57AM (#9922665)
HN is chock full of self-righteous hall monitors. They usually don't progress to the point of calling the cops.
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by maxerickson on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:00AM (#9922681)
Can you expand a little on how calling the police about something is more or less self righteous than doing the (at least somewhat dangerous) experiment on a public highway?
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by SG- on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:15AM (#9922777)
Never talk to the police. At least in places like St-Louis and other cities with historically bad police departments (most of the US).
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by sfafdsdf on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:37AM (#9922964)
It's interesting how you view this issue. If the researchers are more self-righteous than the person calling in, it justifies the latter?
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by maxerickson on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:43AM (#9923010)
No, it just makes directing that line of criticism at the caller pretty inane.
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by invisible_dust on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:05AM (#9922707)
Hall monitors are the best way I could imagine these people being described as. I completely agree.
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Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway by notNow on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @03:38PM (#9925137)
It's definitely elementary school stuff to snitch and play the informant on your colleagues. The worst thing that this was coming from an old fart stuckup who thinks that they could police every thing and everyone around them and act more royal than the king himself.

Old habits die hard.

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