• Carvex@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They take the man’s entire life away because he revealed us terrible things our non-elected leaders are doing to us. Who was hurt by his actions?

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      10 months ago

      They take the man’s entire life away because he revealed us terrible things our non-elected leaders are doing to us.

      And for possessing child porn…

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        10 months ago

        Furman said Schulte continued his crimes from behind bars by trying to leak more classified materials and by creating a hidden file on his computer that contained 2,400 images of child sexual abuse that he continued to view from jail.

        Holy crap, dude was even watching child porn in prison. Clearly the CIA is hiring the cream of the crop.

          • Spot@startrek.website
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            10 months ago

            Except the part where he was quoted saying that it was a victimless crime. Ick

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              10 months ago

              Yeah, it’s fairly insane. You’d think he would have denied it, got everyone in an uproar, maybe made a bid for appeal.

              NOPE

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        10 months ago

        Disclosing found exploits allows developers to patch them out and improve security of everyone, which includes all the other alphabet boys and regular citizens.
        There’s no way to know that you’re the only one who found any given exploit. Letting an exploit stay unpatched opens up an attack vector for everyone, not just you.

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          10 months ago

          Disclosing found exploits to the development team is far different than exposing those exploits to unfriendly countries or in this case those that would expose state secrets.

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        10 months ago

        Tune extent yes, but it also makes us all more secure. Even if you think our own government is doing a good job all the other governments have these holes too.