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by potatolicious 5563 days ago
Being anti-hacker is pretty standard for just about any technology company these days - Motorola and HTC lock down their Android phones and prevent you from installing custom ROMs. Apple is an obvious culprit. It is in fact downright rare for a company to make their products hacker-friendly.

So being hacker-hostile has been a default state for a good long while, and the truly open alternatives are few and far between (OpenMoko? What a joke), and TBH there's a certain amount of closedness I can live with.

There's a difference between that and suing the hackers though. There's even a difference between that and defaming them and draggin them through the mud. This is new.