I suppose my argument is that if a law is unjust, then so is the punishment for breaking it.

My bad directing towards whistleblowers when you meant journos. And only about them encouraging others to break the law. Even talking about journalists though I think the same logic can apply. If one lives in for example, an authoritarian regime, any word spoken against the state is considered unlawful. If we apply the situation to less authoritarian government, that still have laws against disseminating information about the government, we run up against the same issues. It’s against the law to show your government doing wrong. So what recourse is left but to break the law in hopes that you can effect some change?

How is a journalist or a whistleblower to call out the worst without breaking the laws or discussing the same? I get that they can sometimes, your two examples, though I’m not familiar with the instances, I’m sure are great examples of when it all goes right. But some information that should be made known, will see the government pursuing the full extent of the law and potentially beyond, against individuals involved in its dissemination. Journalist, whistleblower, exfiltrator, won’t matter.

I can understand protecting innocent people by censoring what comes out. I think that Assange is a scumbag and don’t like how he operates, but I also think governments need to be held accountable for their actions and choices.

I probably have the jargon wrong as I’m no lawyer. But I would still think the count severity should matter more than it does.

DDOS against a little self hosted instance isn’t really a concern I’d have. I’d be more concerned with the scraping of private information, ransomware, password compromises, things of that nature. If you keep your edge devices on the latest security patches and you are cognizant on what you are exposing and how, you’ll be fine.

I know that’s the norm but you’d think that even with it being the first time he was caught, the 30 count would warrant a more serious response. What would they do if he did this 30 times with a trial between each commitment of a felony? I think that should be a deciding factor even if it’s not likely to be.

How do you suggest a whistleblower actually get and release the information they need to prove themselves if not by breaking bad laws that protect corruption?

Not trying to drum up an argument but I think your black and white stance is flawed.

No worries, just wanted to be sure. 🙂

For the company or the workers? For the company to die on rto mandates, fully agree.

Good luck! Everything will work out eventually.

Yeah I was looking at it and was thinking the article writer is grossly misunderstanding the device. It looks like it’d be a fantastic item for their use case and it’s highly impressive that some high schoolers did that. But it’s not exactly a design that will take over for home and enterprise switching.

Agreed. It’s why I’ll always oppose them.

The conservatives opinions bother me. But the authoritarianism is the bigger issue to me. This desire to force their opinions and wills on other people instead of living their lives as they want and leaving others alone is far more problematic.

Just a prank bro!

Sounds like it was given by people that like Trump? I guess? Had no idea there was a collective nickname for people that hate Trump. Thanks for the links.

Because neither of those are forced imperialist occupations.

I might be a little ootl what does it mean by “resist libs”?

Too little too late, I’m not getting any more versions of windows.

A people and it’s government are two different things. And frequently the government does not give accurate representation of its people’s desires.

But let’s say the USA, because I assume that’s what you are insinuating by westerners, is 100x more evil than all other countries combined. Does that mean the Russian government isn’t bad? Nope. Truth doesn’t change based on the moral character of another separate unrelated entity. Even if that entity is worse and even if that worse entity is the one saying the truth.

You’re really leaving it? Because you sure love judging others for it. This wouldn’t happen in my situation because I have had 3 kids and a dog the whole time and they’ve all lived. But let’s assume I had been negligent. I’d still kill the fuckin dog. Because any dog with that kind of problems doesn’t need to go to a pound to do it to someone else.

Maybe, but I have lines I won’t have crossed and killing my family is one of those. Instinct or not that dog is not getting the chance to do that again.