Not often do I create threads (never before), but I read this news story this morning and since its a day old without an official news post I figured I would throw it up here.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/eekdacat-and-the-fbi-576432
It's a pretty straightforward story, basically some dude got narc'd on and ended up rolling over on some people he worked with in relation to Lulzsec, Internet Feds and a couple other hacker groups nobody has ever heard of.
Originally I wanted to leave it at that, to see if people would read the news story and naturally come to the conclusions I was curious about - but that would almost be a topic-less thread, and anyway its right in the title of the article and thread anyway.
Basically, a few people in the comments to the news article itself (like two I think, which is a lot considering how few people read the full story) brought up the fact that they shouldn't have pressured this guy to roll over because he is autistic. Comments on another website largely ignored this in favour of asking if the news group should have even published this story, as it might lead to additional harassment for the man in question.
I wanted to see what the escapist thinks about this -> should the news group kept quiet for the sake of protecting this person? Is it OK that the lame cousins of the MiB pressured a severely autistic person to narc out his co-conspirators? I have my own opinion, but I don't want to add it to the op to avoid weighting the conversation any more than my word choice and presentation of the issue already has. I'll weigh if the conversation gets going.
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For the record, the story does specifically note that the is high functioning but is developmentally handicapped with respect to social interaction - his father described him as, paraphrasing, kind of like rainman. He apparently also is relatively easy to manipulate, which ultimately lead to his arrest - the feds didn't manipulate him, somebody else did, but that's all in the news story. I add this because it is a pretty chunky news report, and it would be easy to miss this information that I think is fairly critical to the discussion.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/eekdacat-and-the-fbi-576432
It's a pretty straightforward story, basically some dude got narc'd on and ended up rolling over on some people he worked with in relation to Lulzsec, Internet Feds and a couple other hacker groups nobody has ever heard of.
Originally I wanted to leave it at that, to see if people would read the news story and naturally come to the conclusions I was curious about - but that would almost be a topic-less thread, and anyway its right in the title of the article and thread anyway.
Basically, a few people in the comments to the news article itself (like two I think, which is a lot considering how few people read the full story) brought up the fact that they shouldn't have pressured this guy to roll over because he is autistic. Comments on another website largely ignored this in favour of asking if the news group should have even published this story, as it might lead to additional harassment for the man in question.
I wanted to see what the escapist thinks about this -> should the news group kept quiet for the sake of protecting this person? Is it OK that the lame cousins of the MiB pressured a severely autistic person to narc out his co-conspirators? I have my own opinion, but I don't want to add it to the op to avoid weighting the conversation any more than my word choice and presentation of the issue already has. I'll weigh if the conversation gets going.
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For the record, the story does specifically note that the is high functioning but is developmentally handicapped with respect to social interaction - his father described him as, paraphrasing, kind of like rainman. He apparently also is relatively easy to manipulate, which ultimately lead to his arrest - the feds didn't manipulate him, somebody else did, but that's all in the news story. I add this because it is a pretty chunky news report, and it would be easy to miss this information that I think is fairly critical to the discussion.
