(August 24, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(August 24, 2015 at 3:29 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Lol you are so easy to wind up.
Outside this I was falsely accused of throwing a rock at a car during recess at a middle school, a private school. Was also questioned about a 30k TV camera that went missing at a TV station I interned at. Until you are falsely accused , or even looked at funny for things you know you didn't do, don't judge.
You don't protect the accused because you think they are innocent, you protect them because you value your own rights and privacy.
Yes, I take this personally, not because I like the website, or its patrions, but because I value my own rights and privacy.
First of all, NO ONE has said that the hackers should not be punished if caught. NO ONE is saying that they were right to hack the site. I stated this before. Second, if you believe you have actual privacy online, you are a deluded fool. Right now, the NSA is very likely vacuuming up all of the things you and I are doing online. Right now, hackers are trying to hack various web sites. If you believe that web sites you visit are really secure and cannot be hacked, you living in a dream world.
So, no one of sense does things online that they are very concerned about keeping private. Especially people who are not using serious encryption software for everything they do. If you come to a site like this one, you should expect that Tiberius is probably not going to hand out your private information (though did you read the privacy policy and is it subject to change?), but you should not expect state-of-the-art anti-hacking measures to be taken either, so you should expect that what you do here might be connected to you at some point in the future. If that bothers you, you should stay off the internet, because the illusion of privacy that people feel is merely an illusion.
If you really value your privacy and are not an idiot, you stay off the fucking internet, because everything you do on the internet can all be traced back to you. It is a question of whether the right person is motivated to do it or not. And very probably the NSA has records of everything you do online. Your ISP may be making it easy for them by just handing the information over to them. A determined and skillful hacker can get your online information, too, if they wish to do so. This is especially true of using one's credit card online, as is the case with Ashley Madison's users. Their connection to adultery could have been revealed by hacking their credit card company, so there is an extra way of getting found out when one uses credit cards online.
When people do stupid things, bad things can happen to them. If you expect that everyone else is always going to do what they are supposed to, you are going to have all sorts of trouble in life. You would not bother locking your car or removing your keys from the ignition if you seriously believed that everyone else does what they are supposed to do. Somehow, I think you would be saying of some moron who did that and then complained that their car was stolen, that they should have taken greater precautions to prevent the problem.
No web site promises you that it will not and cannot be hacked. Or if they do, it is an empty promise. Kind of the like the promises the Ashley Madison customers made to their spouses.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
