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Lily Hay Newman reports at Slate that Sony is counter-hacking to keep its leaked files from spreading across torrent sites. According to Recode, Sony is using hundreds of computers in Asia to execute a denial of service attack on sites where its pilfered data is available, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Sony used a similar approach in the early 2000s working with an anti-piracy firm called MediaDefender, when illegal file sharing exploded. The firm populated file-sharing networks with decoy files labelled with the names of such popular movies as “Spider-Man,” to entice users to spend hours downloading an empty file. "Using counter-attacks to contain leaks and deal with malicious hackers has been gaining legitimacy," writes Newman. "Some cyber-security experts even feel that the Second Amendment can be interpreted as applying to 'cyber arms'.”
[Ed's Comment: As I understand it, the Second Amendment only applies in the United States or in its territories overseas — it doesn't give Americans the right to bear arms anywhere else in the world.]
(Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday December 12 2014, @09:10PM
It's still taking too long for people to notice that I have the inherent right to free computers. How do I know I have such a natural right, you ask? Because I consulted the magical rights fairy, of course!
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday December 13 2014, @05:33AM
You will be waiting a very long time. The American system was designed around negative rights. What the State can't do. This new 'Rights' bullcrap where people are now supposed to be entitled to other people's stuff ain't even close to being American; it is Progressive. Those ideas derive from the French and Russian revolutions and should have no place here. But of course they do.... now.
(Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday December 13 2014, @02:02PM
The American system doesn't matter. My rights are natural, inalienable rights. Sure, I can't scientifically prove that they exist, and I couldn't prove exactly what rights someone has even if I could prove that natural rights existed, but believe me, my rights are what I say they are.