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USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

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460 points wglb | 3 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
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0xEF ◴[09 Aug 24 08:27 UTC] No.41199904[source]▶
I hate that it kicks off with "DISCLAIMER: This is not my work. I would never and don't condone illegal hacking of scammers"

You know what? I do. We all should. These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked. I am tired of toothless authorities like CISA and the alphabet agencies in the US doing next to nothing about it unless some YouTube scam baiter does the work for them. Scammers destroy people, not just financially, but emotionally as well, even driving some victims to suicide. As far as I am concerned, any wannabe hacker out there should be using these scammers for target practice.

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1. sheepscreek ◴[09 Aug 24 12:32 UTC] No.41201202[source]▶
Why is the author afraid of getting sued by scammers? I think there should be some legal protections for people like them. Better yet - a licensing program to allow them to do this without legal repercussions as long as it’s done within the guardrails of the framework.
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2. BiteCode_dev ◴[09 Aug 24 12:39 UTC] No.41201261[source]▶
Because, believe it or not, the system is better at inflicting pain at someone honest than someone crooked.
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3. coldpie ◴[09 Aug 24 12:50 UTC] No.41201350[source]▶
> Why is the author afraid of getting sued by scammers?

Being civilly sued by scammers isn't the fear, it's being prosecuted by the state for committing CFAA (or similar) crimes.