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by blancotech
2915 days ago
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Really great article. As someone who first became interested in computer science from Xbox “hacking” and JTAGing 360s this shows an alternative path that would have been easy to go down. When you become enveloped by the status you attain in forums, meet sketchy “friends” online, and start getting easy money, then the path of least resistance becomes the one in this article. |
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I rather believe that most such people (including adolescents) are not that willing to go down the path of easy money. The problem rather is in my opinion: The other side is simply not there to make counteroffers (i.e. less money, but perfectly legal etc.). So it is not a choice between "going on the dark side vs light side" (which is a serious decision to make, and confronted with this decision, I believe, most people (again including adolescents) would indeed choose the "light side"), but rather a situation of "only the dark side makes an offer: will you go into it or not - 'we have lots of money to offer'". Confronted with this, I can understand quite well that there exist people (in particular adolescents might be prone to that because they have less life experience) who will go into it.
So provocatively one could even state that the problem rather is that "the other side is at fault", since they make no serious legal offers to prevent such people from "turning much into the dark side".