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I think the existing collateral damage examples were pretty actual already. By burying terrorist headquarters under civilian apartment buildings, Hezbollah guarantees collateral damage.
Does this extend to putting a military base next to a shopping mall? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaKirya What’s the permissible distance in a three mile wide strip of land among the most densely populated in the world?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa... I found this reddit thread from /r/DataHoarder about backing up the internet archive particularly interesting, given the circumstances
It's been tried several times, but it's hard because it's such a massive quantity of data. The IPFS backup never really got off the ground. They have their own backups which I think is good enough for now unless someone plans on donating a few hundred million.
Well this should be fun. Now I'll have to dig through my IA account and remember if I donated to them directly via credit card (and if they stored it), or if it was through PayPal.
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There is a big difference between doing something for pure curiosity, love, or exploration and doing something directly harmful to other people for the same reasons. One is art; the other is sadism.
I'm not sure that placing free long distance calls isn't harmful to the org whose infrastructure you're using for your own benefit, but 2600 (Hz) is a respected hacker magazine and phreaking and Cap'n crunch whistles are seen as cool Hacking the Internet Archive and only placing an alert with a provocative message, I could see my teenage self do that. My judgment of the character is going to depend on what it turns o…
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It's called torrent protocol and it doesn't work, no one wants to spend money and bandwidth hosting a god forsaken movie or book that only a handful of people care about.
It does work, when you don't notice it. We need sane limits and permanent seeders. This is why so many regular people get hit with ISP notices, they don't know they've seeded Captain America for the last six months every time they started their PC.
“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
That's a strange thing to read on Hacker news. Isn't that description the definition of hack value? As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html Now, it depends what the "it" is referring to here, but so far all I've heard is about an alert() message saying the usernames will be sent to a breach alerting site. If they're doing it just for the heck of it, it's still costing a lot of people a lot of time tha…
> Make public data available, protect private data.
“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
That's a strange thing to read on Hacker news. Isn't that description the definition of hack value? As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html Now, it depends what the "it" is referring to here, but so far all I've heard is about an alert() message saying the usernames will be sent to a breach alerting site. If they're doing it just for the heck of it, it's still costing a lot of people a lot of time tha…
It's "whipping something together" hackers.
Breaking into the Internet Archive's servers is like breaking into your public library. There's no honor to be had.
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I'm not sure that placing free long distance calls isn't harmful to the org whose infrastructure you're using for your own benefit, but 2600 (Hz) is a respected hacker magazine and phreaking and Cap'n crunch whistles are seen as cool Hacking the Internet Archive and only placing an alert with a provocative message, I could see my teenage self do that. My judgment of the character is going to depend on what it turns o…
We have lost the ability to meaningfully compare the magnitude of things.