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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-the-slate-off dept.

Last year, a vigilante hacker broke into the servers of a company that sells spyware to everyday consumers and wiped their servers, deleting photos captured from monitored devices. A year later, the hacker has done it again.

Thursday, the hacker said he started wiping some cloud servers that belong to Retina-X Studios, a Florida-based company that sells spyware products targeted at parents and employers, but that are also used by people to spy on their partners without their consent.

[...] "None of this should be online at all," the hacker told Motherboard, claiming that he had deleted a total of 1 terabyte of data.

"Aside from the technical flaws, I really find this category of software disturbing. In the US, it's mainly targeted to parents," the hacker said, explaining his motivations for going after Retina-X. "Edward Snowden has said that privacy is what gives you the ability to share with the world who you are on your own terms, and to protect for yourself the parts of you that you're still experimenting with. I don't want to live in a world where younger generations grow up without that right."

[...] Retina-X was not the only spyware company hacked last year. Other hackers also breached FlexiSpy, an infamous provider of spyware that has actively marketed its apps to jealous lovers. At the time, the hackers promised that their two victims—FlexiSpy and Retina-X—were only the first in line, and that they would target more companies that sell similar products.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:05AM (6 children)

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:05AM (#641032)

    I judge EACH and every law and decide FOR MYSELF if its worth obeying or not.

    see, I'm not a robot. to blindly follow orders is so... - well - I won't complete that thought.

    I do find it funny that conservatives will usually be on the side of blindly following laws. they love the authority concept.

    I DON'T.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:37AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:37AM (#641058) Homepage Journal

    I too use my own conscience.

    The law exists to force an artificial conscience on those who have none.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Spamalope on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:08PM (1 child)

      by Spamalope (5233) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:08PM (#641207) Homepage

      The law exists to force an artificial conscience on those who have none.

      Or to prohibit moral behavior for the benefit of those with no conscience.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:49PM (#641317)

        The law exists to keep the proletariat in their place.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:03PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:03PM (#641129) Homepage Journal

    I do find it funny that conservatives will usually be on the side of blindly following laws. they love the authority concept.

    Yes and in many cases a whole lot of behaviors that are legal but immoral are condoned or even encouraged.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:14PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:14PM (#641132) Homepage Journal

    I should add that it's not necessarily just conservatives. There are lefty authoritarians too. Also, authoritarians love other people being made to follow their laws. The laws do not apply to the authoritarians themselves or their best buddies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:59AM (#641757)

    Sorry, but this is a recipe for disaster. If everyone considered any law they disliked as optional...

    What makes a society cohesive is the common trust we have in the order of the society. Anarchy betrays that.

    Abraham Lincoln had the better answer than MLK.
      "The fastest way to repeal a bad law is to enforce it strictly."

    If the law is truly unjust, the body politic will revolt against it.