“This is, literally, an argument that if you stumble across a text file full of credit card numbers” (comment)
recommended by 1 user | 2013 | tptacek on: You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on… | law & ip | original thread |
tptacek on Jul 2, 2013 | on: You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal | view on HN

This is, literally, an argument that if you stumble across a text file full of credit card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes, it should be lawful for you to put it up on Pastebin.

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prvit Sep 5, 2022 | on: Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard… | context

Nobody has ever suggested that Asshurt was a part of the daily stormer, she wasn't.

>The usage of weev's the trial is also pretty absurd and manipulative, given that his trial wasn't really related to the daily stormer, but about hacking, so much so that the EFF[0] defended him.

Pretty sure most smart people have already distanced themselves from the EFF at this point, so that's not very convincing.

EFF, despite getting repeatedly called out by several top experts, spent years pushing downright dangerous disinformation via their "secure messaging scorecard". Not exactly a trustworthy organisation.

It was also a bizarre choice to defend weev, both from a legal and moral point of view. tptacek explained it well at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978686