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Revelations over the past few days that hackers had penetrated certain systems at the Nasdaq stock exchange are reverberating throughout the financial world. Indeed, the case is shaking some bedrock assumptions of a digitized, high-speed, globally connected stock market run essentially by computers with minimal human interaction.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Cuervo
Hackers are common criminals. They cost consumers and businesses many billions a year. I personally support at least 20 year minimum sentences for those who invade others privacy, no matter their invented reason or logic.
There is a huge difference between this and a Whistle-Blower. That's why Assange alienated so many former supporters when he went from helping Whistle-Blower's to being a Media Whore and dealing in stolen information; even putting others lives at risk.
In the case of the NASDAQ, great harm could be done to innocent people who's savings and pensions are wrapped up in investments. Nothing cool or good in that in any way. Just cheap thugs, doing what cheap thugs do. Those who support Hackers are the same.
Originally posted by Cuervo
Reply to Post by Cuervo
You bring to light something very interesting. The hacker image in pop culture no longer brings to mind cool kids in trench coats and skate boards running from people in suits (sorry, I never saw those movies so my description may be off). Instead, we are now trained to think of them as harmful to you when it's really them (Wall St) who are in danger. I rarely hear of anybody aside from mega-institutions getting attacked or harmed by "hackers".
We are tricked into thinking that "thieves" and "hackers" are one and the same. DDOS attacks, identity theft, CC theft? Those are not results of "hacking". You are not a hacker but you could still steal my ID, my CC, and ruin my website all from your house. That is not hacking; that's just being a dick who can use Google.
If you notice, the MMS are reporting the dangers of peoples' money and investments being threatened by this. It's distracting you from the very real danger of getting CEO's in the spotlight by finding proof of illegal deeds perpetrated by Wall St. over the last age or so. This isn't about stealing citizens' investments no matter how badly they want you to think that. Why do you think they wrote an article titled "NASDAQ Hacked -- and So What"?edit on 7-2-2011 by Cuervo because: I'm a dumb ass.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Holly N.R.A.
How do you know these are Whistle-Blowers and not just some Anarchists who hate all businesses? It seems to me we don't. Do you apply the law to one person and not the next depending on their ideologies? I shudder to think where that would lead. High Tech Lynch Mobs and Witch Hunts?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Holly N.R.A.
How do you know these are Whistle-Blowers and not just some Anarchists who hate all businesses? It seems to me we don't. Do you apply the law to one person and not the next depending on their ideologies? I shudder to think where that would lead. High Tech Lynch Mobs and Witch Hunts?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
Hackers are common criminals. They cost consumers and businesses many billions a year. I personally support at least 20 year minimum sentences for those who invade others privacy, no matter their invented reason or logic.