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by onion2k 730 days ago
Good result.

There's rarely such a thing as a clear, objectively simple 'good result' for this sort of action because outcomes have knock-on effects. For example, if the North Koreans responsible for maintaining internet access were executed over this that diminishes the result significantly.

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Good point, but the original comment was about whether the hacker was morally dubious, not the outcomes. If a bad actor does bad things because of what you did, you're not morally responsible for it — he is.