alt Hacker News> "We liberated hardware"
Ya know, I'm not on Flock's side here.. but be real, this is theft. You should be able to own that if you're going to do something like this.
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I don't get the impression that anyone writing about this thinks it's legal. I think the argument would be that it's justified.
“I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts.” - Luke O’Neil https://flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-after-2/
liberation is often used to refer to something that, while technically legal, the people that are subject to it did not agree to
Anything becomes permissible when you believe yourself to be “on the right side of history.”
> You should be able to own that if you're going to do something like this.
Um, are you saying the hackers should admit they broke the law? Or that Flock should righteously own the data they collect?
Either way, I d/c. Flock cameras are probably insecure, and their data is potentially dangerous.
Bad laws exist, and following them may be prudent at times, but the act of following them isn't a moral imperative.
And my privacy? The threat to democracy? Does Flock own that? Why is always the poors that need to own morality?
That's also the biggest plot-hole in the first Star Wars movie. Princess Leia is supposed to be this righteous noble of the moral resistance and yet she STEALS the Death Star plans!