I was saddened to hear that two individuals who released fur animals and vandalized fur farms across America were busted: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/fbi-arrests-activists-accused-of-releasing-mink/article_6c169b5d-dbbc-5dd1-adb0-534ee46af88b.html
But the arrest is sort of beside the point and there are two interesting tidbits in there. First and less interesting, is the ridiculous charge of terrorism under the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act" -- seriously, what they did is just plain old crime. Before you know it, going 10 over on the freeway will be considered an act of terrorism.
More intriguing, despite a lack of details on how they got busted, is this tidbit:
The indictment states that they covered their tracks by avoiding phones or logging into known online accounts and email. Instead, they used public Internet computers and encrypted email and cash for purchases while traveling. They would allegedly withdraw hundreds of dollars while back home in the San Francisco Bay Area before another trip.
The FBI states that they drafted communiques and posted them online to publicize their actions on websites associated with "animal rights extremists."
I'm going to guess automatic license plate readers were involved. Pure guess.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by penguinoid on Monday July 27 2015, @07:02PM
Vandalism, destruction of property, is a CRIME, and I don't give a FUCK what your "ethics" are.
I hear if you own the wrong substances (eg drugs) or the wrong ones and zeroes (eg kiddie porn) then a large group of vandals will come to your house, vandalize your door, kidnap you, and keep you imprisoned for several years.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Monday July 27 2015, @08:28PM
While true, I think that is unethical behavior on their part, and that they SHOULD be subject to criminal penalties. It should also be illegal, but I'm not certain that it is.
An interesting question is, given the first sentence, what ARE ethical criminal penalties?
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:03AM
And what is it, specifically, that makes drug use unethical? What's really unethical there is the government literally owning its' citizens' bodies, to the point of even dictating what they can and cannot put in their bodies.