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So if you steal something it means the owner didn’t do a good job securing it and if you murder someone they didn’t do a good job protecting themselves?

What an absurd world view.


The diff is that owner is responsible for their own shit where a telco has everyone's things in there and is exposed to the whole world instead of just one street.

It is like a bank that has sloppy security and exposes you to the whole world, including adversaries from Russia china NK etc.

Things like Telco cloud banks should absolutely be thrashed for having bad security. Responsible disclosure should also be a thing but we all know these companies sue people for that too.


I have this view when it comes to computers and software, not physical property or people.


Does that extend to medical systems? If someone hacks my pacemaker and destabilizes my heart, or my pharmacy/hospital and prevents me from receiving medical care, is that something that should be legally permitted on the basis that "medical device makers/pharmacies/hospitals should try harder, and should somehow compensate their patients if a hack occurs"?

How do you compensate someone who's dead?

This isn't hypothetical: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/28/cyberattacks-u-s-ho...


> Does that extend to medical systems?

Anything network connected that can be reached by an adversary. And, I did not say it shoukd be legal or illegal, just that the fault lies with who administers/secures those systems, not with whoever breaches them.

> How do you compensate someone who's dead?

In some countries where I lived, there were pricelists based on nationality that insurance would pay out in case of accidental death. If you live in a more homogenous country, you can use other factors to determine what the payout should be.


If your bank has shoddy software and a thief steals your money is that ok?


I don’t care in that scenario, it is the bank’s fault, not mine. It is on them to make it right.


It is this disconnected from reality attitude that gives technical people a bad reputation. Please reconsider your bad takes.


Can you post the specs on your missile defense system for your home lab?

How are you dealing with the rise of low-cast swarm attacks from drones?

Is it land-based, sea-based or space-based and at what point of the trajectory do you target and do you use jamming?


If you have servers on multiple continents that's enough to become immune to attacks like this. You don't need missile defense.


I would but then I'd have to kill you.


Eh I get your point but would point out that distribution does mitigate the risk here, having all your data in DC's that can be seen from space also isn't a panacea when your next door neighbour targets them in retaliation for what your ally did.


Meta will do whatever it can to run any and all ads.

Meta knowingly runs scam ads, they just charge more to run them: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/consumer-watchdog-g...

> Reuters also reported that Meta internally projected in 2024 that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running ads for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

At $employer we're CONSTANTLY fighting fake ads cloning our brand. Their various brand protection features seem deliberately inept and ineffective.


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