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altairprimetoday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

The defenses of the person pentesting the court system have the same sort of energy, for theoretical example, hacking in-flight WiFi for the lulz and then claiming to have done the airline a favor by exposing their weaknesses for repair. Systems of authority tend to react poorly to pentests, whether authorized or unauthorized, and very poorly to the appearance of retconning the satisfaction of one’s desired outcome as altruistic intent.


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marcus_holmestoday at 9:05 PM

this. Is the judge really going to be "oh wow, thank you so much for helping us find this bug"? I suspect not. I suspect it'll be "you get 5 years banged up in solitary for attempting to pervert the course of justice"