dannym

He can learn once he understands the repercussions of his actions. Remember that he's an autistic teenager, he has a lot to learn about life and especially morality.

If you're not aware, the hack was performed by Arion Kurtaj, an 18 year old, who has been put in ~~prison~~ a psych ward in a uk prison. He hacked rockstar at a hotel, where he was left with no computers or phones, only to find that the TV had a chromecast, which he used to buy a phone and a keyboard (presumably by selling his monero).

• He hacked into all major uk telcom providers: EE, BT and Orange.
• He hacked into nvidia

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

Don't get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals, but also a stellar salary where he can do what he's doing for the right side.

EDIT: I have made a mistake in my original comment, which has been pointed out. My bad, he's technically in a psych ward in a uk prison, because he's aggressive and unstable. I still stand by what I said (and what I clarified in the comments below), but I wanted to correct the record

what FOSS library do you maintain?

I'd like to correct you by saying that GPL is DEFINITELY enforceable in countries other than america. I can't say about every country (tho that will be the case with every license), but for instance it's definitely enforceable in europe. For example in Germany and France there have been a few lawsuits that the FSF helped carry out against immoral companies.

GPL Enforcement Cases - FSFE

If you're in Germany the Institute for Legal Questions on Free and Open Source Software is a law firm that literally works only on enforcing the GPL, FOSS licenses and other technological human rights that are being ignored by big tech.

If you want to be even more sure about European Enforcement you may want to checkout the EUPL v1.2 which is GPLv3 compatible.

In other countries, such as Japan, the GPL is also enforceable, so long as you treat it the same way as copyright, so you're willing to sue companies that you know are stealing from you (the FSF can help you if you can't afford it).

Russia and China don't care, but... it's Russia and China, that's not really news, is it? :)

EDIT: I will write a full article about the legal enforce-ability of FOSS licenses such as the GPL before the end of the year

MIT is a terrible license that only got popular because of the popularity of the anti-open source movement in the last decade.

one could write books about what's wrong with the MIT license.

It could even theoretically be argued that MIT has in some ways allowed big tech companies to proliferate, by effectively allowing them to take open-source code, modify it, and then close it off in their proprietary software. What does this mean? It means that the work of countless dedicated open-source developers can be co-opted by companies that have done almost none of the work, reaping several billions of dollars, while the developers who actually did the work make no money. It's like opening your doors wide only to have someone come in, take your stuff, and sell it back to you.

In contrast, in licenses like the GPL, there's a requirement that if you use GPL-licensed code and modify it, your new code also has to be open-source under the GPL.

the syntax is more powerful than markdown, the whole idea of with blocks and the ability to have more complex layouts is great

I love it; it's been my replacement for LaTeX ever since I've hears about it on hacker news

The concept of competition among tech companies has done a complete 180 on its original meaning. It's no longer predominantly about crafting superior products; rather, it's become a race to secure the largest amount of investor funding.

In this transformed landscape, the product itself and revenue generation often take a backseat, or at best, hold a tertiary importance. The heart of customer-centric ethos, especially crucial elements like data security, are now distressingly overlooked. What matters is getting the next investment to become the next "unicorn" and be acquired for billions of dollars. Silicon Valley Companies want the easy way out, do only a fraction of the work for an exponential amount of the benefits.

Don't get me wrong, there are reasons to seek investment, getting a good product built is actually complex and you actually need a lot of different people working on it. The alternative is losing years of your life on a sisyphean ordeal of soul-crushing, hundred-hour work weeks (and that's real work, not "let me check twitter" work), making you question your life choices and whether you should just throw it all away, abandon technology, become a hermit and move to a shed in the mountains.

The problem is that the EXPECTATION today is that you're gonna build a third of a product, care about 1% of the actual business behind it and then pivoting exclusively to the pursuit of investment, letting everything else rot

• In Australia, a kilogram of apples weighs two kilograms
• In Australia, gravity is an opinion
• In Australia, if you have three kangaroos and two koalas you have 9 wombats
• In Australia, if you pay $15 for a $20 dollar meal the restaurant owes you $400
• In Australia, right angles are 69 degrees
• In Australia, 1 is more than 2 except when you write it on its side
• In Australia, a minute is 2 seconds long, which is 24 hours out of the 6 hours in a day
• In Australia, the square root of any number is "a dingo's breakfast"
• In Australia, dividing by two doubles the number, as sharing is caring.
• In Australia, if you travel north you'll end up south
• In Australia, the shortest distance between two points is the scenic route
• In Australia, a watch moves counter clockwise, to remind you not to live in the past.
• In Australia, counter clockwise always means the following order: 1, 26, 55, 0, 0, 0, 9999, kangaroo, spider, mate
• In Australia, your left hand is always your right, because we don't like to leave any hand behind.
• In Australia, the speed of light is adjustable depending on how bright the sun is shining.
• In Australia, when you whisper, the sound travels faster than when you shout

I don't want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can't be that stupid, right?

I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption people, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he's so.... I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.

Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual's stance on encryption, surely there can't be a single person that heard that statement and didn't laugh at it, right?

Perhaps the Australian stereotype of being upside down holds some truth, considering his... utterance; he must walk on his hands and constantly get bit by snakes and attacked by drop bears on his daily commute, that's the only explanation for how someone can make such a statement

it's so rare that it basically only exists in well run companies and well run FOSS projects (which are few and far between)

Oh, i didn't think about that! Tho I'd feel gross installing a google product on my phone