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Why aren't Hackers actually hacking for the GOOD of society?

Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:09 am
Posted by Tigear
Scotland
Member since Sep 2019
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:09 am
We have these hackers just going after 100s of decent companies trying to collect ransoms from data hacks OR they're doing all this disinformation/Russia collusion BS.

Why aren't they actually going after the credit companies, the student loans databases, the Epstein Files, etc. ?
Posted by Cosmo
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:10 am to
Why did the bank robber rob the bank?

Because thats where the money is
Posted by Pettifogger
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:11 am to
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:11 am to
quote:

Why aren't Hackers actually hacking for the GOOD of society?

The last guy that tried the US govt ended up getting exiled to Russia, so probably that.
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:12 am to
quote:


We have these hackers just going after 100s of decent companies trying to collect ransoms from data hacks OR they're doing all this disinformation/Russia collusion BS.

Why aren't they actually going after the credit companies, the student loans databases, the Epstein Files, etc. ?


There's plenty of whitehat hackers working for Fortune 500 companies and the like. You just don't hear of them as much because they usually don't get arrested and/or break the law... no overtly anyway.
This post was edited on 7/29/25 at 11:16 am
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
12909 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:12 am to
The first rule of fight club is …

You pay attention to .01% of hacks because you’re fed all your news through social media. Get some agency in your life and get a better job.
Posted by GRTiger
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Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:12 am to
There are ethical hackers. There are just more looking for an easy path to money, which is finding a vulnerable system and exploiting it to whatever ends they are seeking.

Also the vast majority of hackers are state sponsored and the states that sponsor them have a different opinion on what the good of society means.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:12 am to
Assange?
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:13 am to

Same reason socialism and communism don’t work.
Posted by StringedInstruments
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:13 am to
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:14 am to
Baw, do you not watch movies? They have to be caught by the Feds first. Then, in exchange for no prison time they get to go to work for the FBI helping bust other hackers. It is the circle of hacker life.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
90960 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:15 am to
why doesnt the news report positive news?
Posted by LSUtiger89
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
4494 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:17 am to
There actually are things called ethical hackers. There job is to hack to shore up issues.

But I have an interesting question for you. You used credit companies, the student loans databases as examples.

So what good for society would it be going after the credit companies? I have 94,000 in available credit with 0% rolling utilization with a 820 credit score. What good what it do going after them? Just my identity stolen.
What good would it do for going after student loans database? So you wipe federal student loan debt, erasing all the taxes that people paid to hand out those loans with no payback for our economy as a whole. What good did that do as a whole outside of the people that had their student loans wiped?
This post was edited on 7/29/25 at 11:22 am
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:18 am to
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Why aren't they actually going after the credit companies




Have you missed all the data breaches they've had over the last few years?
Posted by lsufan908
Member since Feb 2006
426 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:20 am to
quote:

going after the credit companies, the student loans databases


How could hackers make the deadbeats pay what they owe?
Posted by mauser
Orange Beach
Member since Nov 2008
25995 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:00 pm to
I wish someone would hack and publish the Congressional harassment payout database.

And a Secret Swiss Bank Account database.
Posted by chalmetteowl
Chalmette
Member since Jan 2008
53461 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:25 pm to
quote:

Why aren't they actually going after the credit companies, the student loans databases, the Epstein Files, etc. ?


Because then they’d be called leftists
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7542 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:28 pm to
I remember when the Anonymous morons said they were going to hack the cartels. They backed off that quickly.
Posted by UncleRuckus
Member since Feb 2013
9579 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:36 pm to
quote:

credit companies, the student loans databases

How would that be for the good of society? Give details please. Thanks
Posted by Koach K
Member since Nov 2016
4784 posts
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:58 pm to
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Hacker


Inside job where the front door just so magicallllllly happens to be open
This post was edited on 7/29/25 at 1:58 pm
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