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LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

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Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#11

Before anyone says, "Why harass these people? They're just trying to make a living." Think about it for a little while.

Have you bothered to "think about" this? Police officers have a sworn duty to uphold the law. They don't write it. If you have a problem with the law your issue is with the Legislators not the cops.

(This is the very definition of "killing the messenger")

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#12

Before anyone says, "Why harass these people? They're just trying to make a living." Think about it for a little while.

There's nothing noble about lulzsec. If someone rampaged through a neighborhood lock picking or crowbaring doors open and dumping the contents on the street out of some misguided sense of raising awareness about security how would people view them? Why should we view lulzsec any different?

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#13
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Catch whom? The smokescreen creators or those exposing them?

He's referring to the kids cracking anything and everything for the "lulz". There is no greater good and it's far from funny. If caught they will be behind bars for a very long time.

Specifically with this attack, I don't think they're doing for lulz anymore.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#14

Exposing home addresses and wife is uncool. Leave the home and family out of it.

I can't judge the whole thing (but it doesn't seem for the lulz), this action anyway has been certainly uncool, I guess they were lucky that their children weren't on file, otherwise they would have been probably involved too.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#17
Racial profiling sucks! It's demeaning, belittling, and alienating. If the cops acted within the law, then what are they afraid of? More transparency = a more democratic state, right? (I don't think their family names should have been listed here though). You can't applaud Wiki leaks for igniting the overthrow of autocratic Middle Eastern governments, and hypocritically argue against similar actions when it's your own country in question.

The US is turning into a police state slowly. I recently saw on HN how a woman was arrested for taping them on her own property. Sounds less like the land of the free, and more like a place where the citizens serve the authorities (my country of birth, Pakistan, citizens, especially the innocent ones, pee their pants when they see cops - something very wrong about that).

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#19

Before anyone says, "Why harass these people? They're just trying to make a living." Think about it for a little while.

Have you bothered to "think about" this? Police officers have a sworn duty to uphold the law. They don't write it. If you have a problem with the law your issue is with the Legislators not the cops. (This is the very definition of "killing the messenger")

Police have a great deal of latitude in how they enforce the law.

Ever been to court when it was your word against a police officer? Who would you imagine the court, jury or your peers will believe?

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#20
Good target to retaliate against. I'm sure they considered going after the people who drafted the legislation, or the voters who passed it, but passed on that because... this was the server they happened to find that was easy to get in to and they came up with their justification afterwards.
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