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by fefe23 616 days ago
I'm sick and tired of the "the evil attacker attacked this harmless company" rhetoric.

Take some responsibility for your actions!

I loathe that you can apparently get away by telling reporters that it must have been a nation state actor. Oh it was just one kid in a hotel room? Well then he must have autism! Hey have you seen Rain Man? Yeah, must have been that kind of super power autism!

It's revolting. Get your act together and stop blaming kids. If a kid can unlock your door by entering the Konami code on your door bell, that's on you.

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Locks are a social contract. We all know they can be bypassed, but doing so is illegal. Kids and adults should be held accountable for repeatedly breaking the law.
computer security isn't comparable to physical security and should be held to a higher standard because it can be.

When you expose a computer to a global computer network, you are exposing it to others with no shared social contract.

Well they should've picked a more "global" target then, not people who can get them caught.
He was prosecuted for the crime in the country he lived in under the social contract he was part of.

Can you explain how his victims exposed themselves?