On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0200, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote:
>A few days ago a story broke where someone hacked into a global warming >research institute and stole all emails from the past 10 years, proving >a conspiracy. > > >- Is the action taken by the hacker legal, ethical, and/or moral? Was >the action justifiable? There was no "hacker"; this was an inside job. Somebody on the inside wanted to get the word outside. >- Do you believe the harm done as a result is justified for the good >(disclosure) that came out of it? Harm done? To whom? The reputations, such as they are, of the insiders? It certainly paints them in a new light. Suppose it slows down or stops the spending of billions (trillions?) of renminbi and rupees and shekels because it's not needed. A lot of good will have been done. >- Can this be treated as civil disobedience? It won't be. Sooner or later the inside man will reveal himself, write a book, make lots of money, suffer the scorn of the AGW true believers, and have the last laugh. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
