Sabu never expressed any regret for his actions, to the contrary.
You don't have to be a bad guy to accidentally hit someone with your car while driving. But if you don't feel bad about it afterwards, you're probably a bad guy. If you go out of your way to point and laugh at the person you hit ...
I am not upholding cowardice as a value and I don't know how you could believe I was, without imagining me saying things I have not said. that seems to be a thing here. "oh I know what this person is thinking" uh no, you don't.
anyway, the limbic portion of your brain is extremely loud and persistent, and principles do not matter to it. it is fight or flight with the limbic system (among other things).
I agree with you in principle, of course, but being human means that you sometimes make bad decisions when the shit hits the fan.
Globalization made our villages far too large and complex to handle mentally. Many of us seek very simple abstractions such as someone or something being good or evil despite any nuance. I feel this is especially visible in politics.
Why is this getting downvoted? That's exactly what Sabu was doing.
He and this FBI guy would approach random kids on IRC in order to entice them to join "his" prestigious hacker group. They weren't going after existing criminals, but going out of their way to create new ones. Largely underage children.
Indeed. And it's worth it to note that Sabu isn't a creep merely because he snitched to save his own ass.
Sabu worked hard to entrap more and more people, largely underage children, and had a lot of fun doing so.
This isn't a guy who simply made a deal to save his own ass and felt bad about it. Sabu never apologized, but rather proceeded to attack the people he'd entrapped.
How come? Informants like Sabu have to work very closely with their handlers, these guys probably spent countless hours sitting next to each other, working together as some kind of a team.
It's not like this is an unique story either, Maksym Popov comes to mind.
Like the other commenter said, it's the podcast part that I find funny. A hacker and special agent, natural enemies, becoming BFF'S and making a podcast together sounds like the premise of a Netflix show, hence the Oniony nature of the headline
Yep, all this being a necessary part of establishing an "expert" persona for future TV talking head gigs (and occasional consulting when you find a big enough idiot).
I still see those videos on Youtube with a person in Guy Fawkes mask announcing their plans to take down (DDoS) such and such a service. They're still around, and they're not as cool anymore though. Anyone can make such a video and then slap 'We are legion, we do not forget' etc
That link really threw me off, I spent a minute or two clicking on it on autopilot baffled as to why OS X has decided that I really should be using the podcasts app instead of safari.
seriously, Apple's weird obsession with hijacking the open web to push their own software is the most anti-user-friendly thing it does
dear Apple: you have 27% market share of podcast apps. please recognize that the rest of us like using other apps and stop pushing your defaults so hard.
UPDATE 2012.03.09
i may indeed be the first rapper in history to endorse a suspected internet snitch. evidence is somewhat overwhelming for it to be simply a disinformation campaign, but, personally, i believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. i will discuss some of my thoughts on www.ytcracker.com.
i sadly will probably retire this song in its current form from my live performances just because i can't in good conscience rap about this until the grieving period has passed and this song becomes vintage and cute again.
kind of like jokes about the spanish inquisition being funny now but they weren't very funny in the years circa 1478-1834 (yes, i did wikipedia this).
we now return to your regularly scheduled video information.
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1999 bitch. (click "show more" if you like reading lyrics and want mp3 and stuff)
swed.
Why post this? The lyrics are bad, the rapping itself isn't good, and to finish it off the rapper himself is a big time poser with a day job at a bigco.
Eh it's kitch at worse, it's a bit of history, maybe you had to be there, what's wrong with an artist being a poser, and are you trying to shame someone for having a "lowly" job?