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

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460 points wglb | 2 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | 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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jsbisviewtiful ◴[09 Aug 24 13:27 UTC] No.41201617[source]▶
> These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked.

Some of them are being held prisoner and are being forced to run these scams under threat of torture. There was a Search Engine episode about this in the last year.

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fsckboy ◴[09 Aug 24 14:15 UTC] No.41202054[source]▶
"19th century cotton growers were awful people"

"but the people growing the cotton were enslaved"

"the enslavers, generally known as cotton growers, were awful people"

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1. lupire ◴[09 Aug 24 16:24 UTC] No.41203268[source]▶
Do you think the slaves would be happy if you set fire to the awful enslaver's cotton field while they were working?

Some might, but it's their choice to make, no yours.

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2. fsckboy ◴[11 Aug 24 21:42 UTC] No.41219502[source]▶
Jewish leaders wanted the concentration camps bombed, despite they were full of captive Jews, who, per your comment, could not make a choice, so it's not as simple as you make it out to be.

However, my comment was meant to teach about the parsing and use of language and antecedent references, not commentary on the semantics of the real world.