Deep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoA hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn themwww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months 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-up1·2 months 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!