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

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460 points wglb | 1 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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Joker_vD ◴[09 Aug 24 08:17 UTC] No.41199837[source]▶
Can you be prosecuted for hacking cybercriminals back? Because I am pretty certain that you, if you had something stolen from you, are not actually allowed to break and enter the thief's house, take your stuff back and leave, and you're definitely not allowed to make a copy of keys for their locks while you're at it.
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langsoul-com ◴[09 Aug 24 08:24 UTC] No.41199884[source]▶
It's pretty grey, there's the computer abuse act or w/e. But it's quite selectively enforced.

I don't the US gov is gonna go after him for hacking a scam group AND he provided details to the authorities. Now, if he hacked them and used the stolen credit card details? Who knows.

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1. smegger001 ◴[09 Aug 24 13:25 UTC] No.41201600[source]▶
some times its even endorsed like when the government just let Microsoft take control of the No-IP's domains a few years back because. despite the fact Microsoft didn't have any standing and just decided they were internet sheriff. I was a customer of No-ip at the time had Microsoft just black-holed the routing of everyone myself included because some users were using their dynamic dns service for malicious purposes