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by StreamBright 3252 days ago
No, they brought him in as a person of interest following Hungarian law. If you do not like the law please vote the next election a party that changes that or move to a country that does not require police to follow the law. Determining if he is going to be charged with a crime is at later stage in the investigation anyways. There is no such a thing as "They took him as a criminal".

Moreover, it is not only Hungarian but also European law to report incidents involving personally identifiable information leaks and there are authorities that investigate and fine companies failing to comply with the law. Any person (including you) can report such companies to authorities.
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bigbugbag 3252 days ago
> If you do not like the law please vote the next election a party that changes that or move to a country that does not require police to follow the law.

Sorry but how exactly electing a different party is supposed to change anything ? Moving to another country will not help either as most other countries are the same or worse.

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ruc0la 3252 days ago
Corruption is also a crime, I do not see the police visiting Mészáros or other entities involving corruption skandals.

But ofc I got your point.

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StreamBright 3252 days ago
I see so following up on a cyber crime is corruption?
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ruc0la 3252 days ago
You know exactly, what I have been referring to. The system is broken. Honestly, who cares if a young guy purchased a ticket to prove his right regarding a bug? How could he do otherwise? You need to make sure about the backend part of the system, too. Meanwhile, the company that developed this "service" is silent and the financing part is also not public, but we can be sure it was not cheap. The whole BKK e-ticket system is plain simple, a mediocre dev team could create a better one.

I understand that you are experienced in law, I understand what you wrote. Although, I do not think that it was the right thing to do. And maybe because of the reactions and the scandal, it will change in the future.

Would not have happened anything if we had just ignored this. We did the right thing.

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StreamBright 3252 days ago
No I do not know.
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ruc0la 3252 days ago
Try harder then. And do not campaign against an innocent young boy even if you think your point of view harmonises with the outdated Hungarian law that bleeds from hundreds of wounds.
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StreamBright 3251 days ago
You can try harder too. Law is the law, regardless of your feelings.
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isolli 3252 days ago
The article states that what happened to him was illegal.

> In Hungary, according to the law, this was pretty much illegal.

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