Deep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoA hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn themwww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkA hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn themwww.abc.net.auDeep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square27fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-25 hours agoSo a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking? A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking? “Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour ago A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking? And the gopher magistrates are absolutely furious, I tell you!
So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?
“Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.
And the gopher magistrates are absolutely furious, I tell you!