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Maybe it's worth hearing Aaron's own words to understand the folly of attacking this one person: When you’re upset with someone, all you want to do is change the way they’re acting. But you can’t control what’s inside a person’s head. Yelling at them isn’t going to make them come around, it’s just going to make them more defiant, like the GM workers who keyed the cars they made. No, you can’t force other people to ch…
The goal is to make the next politically-motivated prosecutor think twice before unleashing hell on some kid. Right now the only feedback these asshats ever see is positive. That leads to an unstable system.
Don't you think their goal was to make the next politically-motivated hacktivist think twice before unleashing hell on some university, business or individual?