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by runamok 3617 days ago
That's a pretty big strawman. A better recourse would be to whistle blow in that scenario. Though clearly that carries a great deal of personal risk too.

Destroying a company damages all of that companies customers and employees as well. The difference between a surgical strike of a "bad guy" and carpet bombing a country.
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tracker1 3617 days ago
And if the government is complicit, and acting against its' own laws? That isn't such a strawman.

Also, blowing the whistle can mean many things... in this case, it was a temporary disruption, not much different than an organized strike would be.

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johansch 3617 days ago
Corrupt stuff in third world countries do not get entire chapters in CERT books - that's where things like these are expected to happen. Over and over again.
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tracker1 3617 days ago
The NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country. Then again, he didn't take down the NSA's routers or spying aparatus on the way out either.
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johansch 3615 days ago
> The NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country.

Yeah, isn't that what I said?

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