Report For NATO Justifies Killing Of Hackers In A Cyberwar

cpwill said:

:shrug: it depends on intent.

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It depends on who is funding him, it depends on a lot of things, but just hacking a bank is NOT gonna get someone droned.

Bank hack =/= terrorist

Bank hack + KEY CONTEXT (terrorist list or terrorist funding) might.

I was contesting someone who claimed "but someone just hacking a bank to steal might be considered a terrorist". And that person is wrong.

Hackers will be the new witch hunt and the newage terrorist boogie man. Some ****er will fly a drone into a school on purpose and blame it all on a hacker. The "hacker" will prolly have some family relationship to some wealthy business man who would be better off without that "hacker" in his life for whatever personal/financial reason.


It will be soo easy to blame so much on "hackers" that I think the government will start doing it full time eventually. "Anonymous" will be the American Al Qaeda.

It will be akin to this metaphor I pull out of my ass:
Evil terminators take over the world. AI declares war on humanity and massacre begins. Turns out artificial-intelligence never existed. All the terminators are simply automated. There is just a man behind the joysticks making you think Evil "AI" is in control.

Viktyr Gehrig said:

Power outages kill people. Between hospital patients and potential rioting, a well-placed power outage could kill hundreds.

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I was unaware of the massive casualties when California had rolling blackouts. Hospitals should have backup generators and I've never heard of riot that was caused solely by a power outage. The idiots who knock over power lines by accident don't get prosecuted for negligent homicide.