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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: 0s | 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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blacklion ◴[09 Aug 24 14:56 UTC] No.41202474[source]▶
Same could be said for self-defense, though it is effectively banned in most "civilized" countries.
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vkou ◴[09 Aug 24 17:13 UTC] No.41203677[source]▶
Self-defense isn't banned anywhere, the kind of 'self-defense' murder that some people in the US occasionally get away with is, though.

(For example, if your idea of self-defense starts with 'I'll be following someone around in my truck...', most other countries would let you hang.)

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1. blacklion ◴[11 Aug 24 17:46 UTC] No.41217943[source]▶
I've said "most", not "all".

In most EU countries you cannot use "more offensive" force than robber/raper uses. And you cannot use firearms in any case.

It is bizarre concept for me: I need to fight with bare hands better than robber, as I cannot use knife if robber doesn't have a knife. Same for knife-to-knife fight, as firearm is no-no in any case. I'm not as young and agile as typical robber, and I cannot have any "technical" advantage over him. If it is question of your personal belongings you better give everything and report to insurance company (as if any belongings could be replaced with their price!)

Again, I don't say it is in every EU country, but EU bureaucrats try to force more "liberal" countries (as Czech or Bulgaria) to adopt "common" (very strict) rules.