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This thread is for discussing vigilante hacking. By vigilante hacking I mean doing illegal hacking for reasons the vigilante considers morally right. Should vigilante hacking be legal? Is vigilante hacking even helpful or effective?
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Should it be legal? No I don't agree with that. Either allow all hacking or no hacking at all. Can't be selective.
But morally I do agree that Vigilanté hacking isn't so bad. It's better than ransomware or carding/fraud and all the other more blackhat activities.
Really depends on the case here. For example: Hacking into the government and exposing corruption by sharing emails and illegal govt activities. I would say this is morally right and good for democracy and transparency.
But... a bunch of hackers doxing a dude based on rumours? That would be mob justice and not vigilante hacking.
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Ah maybe I wasn't quite clear, what I meant was that considering something like morality in a scope so large as the entirety of vigilante hacking is ultimately pointless as it's such a large topic with so many different subtypes and examples of each. Hence why I gave a particular example as well, much easier to look at the morality of a single example as opposed to a larger, all-encompassing topic.
Then again I do tend to be caught up in the subjective over objective, it's just my view I'm expressing here obviously including my own hang ups over objectivity.