[HN Gopher] I Was Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Hacking Back
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       I Was Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Hacking Back
        
       Author : adebelov
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-06-23 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hackernoon.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hackernoon.com)
        
       | lamontcg wrote:
       | If someone steals something from you, the law doesn't allow you
       | to break into their house in an attempt to try to steal it back.
        
         | captainzidgel wrote:
         | Notably as well, this is more equivalent to a former housemate
         | taking something of yours as they leave, instead of a burglary.
         | The phrase "hacking back" in the title implied to me that an
         | outsider hacked their servers. Not that hacking back would be
         | ethical either way, but I felt misled.
        
           | ls612 wrote:
           | And in both cases, unless you are much better connected than
           | the other person, the person doing the taking will de facto
           | come out on top, by design.
        
         | JohnFen wrote:
         | Indeed. It sounds like he got a just result for his actions.
        
       | jackblemming wrote:
       | I believe the author should seek therapy, a lot of this read like
       | a borderline manic rant.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | adebelov wrote:
       | This is a story of Jonathan Manzi being sentenced to prison for
       | 18 months for accessing his ex-employees DropBox account, after
       | he found out his company's IP was stolen.
       | 
       | In some ways, reminds me of Aaron Swartz's case.
        
       | crtified wrote:
       | Searching the mans name quickly brings up media reports of the
       | story.
       | 
       | His 'hack back' involved a SIM card hijack, which was then used
       | to get access to the other partys Google and Dropbox accounts.
       | 
       | Is the jail sentence fair? Highly subjective. Personally, and
       | given the financial repayment, I believe the sentence may be
       | excessive, but given that I don't even live in the same part of
       | the world as these proceedings, my context is my own.
       | 
       | Either way, it is an abject lesson in the potential fallibility
       | of any persons choices, when unfortunate external circumstances
       | come to bear. No matter how young you became a millionaire, no
       | matter how many entrepreneurship awards you have, or how
       | prestigious the college on your certifications, how many people
       | have praised you as prodigious and rare, you are still entirely
       | vulnerable to your own missteps.
       | 
       | Sometimes, it's factors like burnout which lead there. And you
       | can't predict how you will react under a given new kind of
       | stress. Stress can drive us all to very strange decisions.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2023-06-23 23:02 UTC)