Hacking Victim Blaming

Discussions center on whether victims of hacks bear responsibility for poor security, the inevitability of breaches even for experts, hacker ethics, and reactions like arrests or deterrence efforts.

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Sample Comments

jefftk Aug 5, 2021 View on HN

People get hacked all the time; how would this be different?

waihtis Jul 31, 2020 View on HN

Guess is there was some opsec failures, and this is typical scaremongering with intent to deter future to-be-hackers

hamiltonians Feb 3, 2022 View on HN

what is stopping someone from going through each protocol and finding an explioit. no one has been arrested despite dozens of these hacks.

jqpabc123 Sep 18, 2023 View on HN

When the best and brightest cryptobros getting hacked, does the Average Joe really have any reasonable chance of avoiding the same?

gamache Aug 19, 2009 View on HN

Sure, well of course if he got hacked then I am not gonna hold it against him. I just can't imagine anyone targeting _why.

staticassertion Sep 18, 2022 View on HN

Presumably they could have done more to not get hacked.

TheOtherHobbes May 15, 2018 View on HN

In this context "People are hacking everything" is not entirely reassuring.

jlg23 Jul 19, 2016 View on HN

I think it is a sad commentary on our society that all comments so far revolve around the possibility of being arrested for this simple hack :{

jessaustin Jan 22, 2020 View on HN

If I got hacked, no one in government would care. Why should Bezos be different?

tptacek Dec 4, 2017 View on HN

You can't deter hackers by breaking into machines.