alt Hacker News> I can’t help but feel there used to be honor among hackers. You didn’t go after your own. What kind of jerk would attack Arch Linux?
This has absolutely not ever been the case.
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dmitrygr • yesterday at 6:56 PM
> This has absolutely not ever been the case.
I think it was. Eg: on most russian warez forums in the 2000s, it was a bannable offense to crack russian-authored software.
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DDayMace • yesterday at 6:33 PM
yup there is no honor among thieves unfortunately
sejje • yesterday at 6:18 PM
yes, hackers are bigger targets imo, not smaller ones
It is, among most users, but it only takes a few abusing that for it to seem like there's none.
EDIT: Rereading, maybe it's that other kind of "hacker"...