You don't have to be that lazy. You know as well as any other chemically well-balanced individual that two wrongs don't make a right. I can't tell who is doing a better job of feeding the trolls, you or I.
My bad, tried to resist, but just couldn't. Won't do it again, know it degrades the conversation.
However, I'm not feeling too bad about it. I'm disgusted at the US government bankrupting itself partly by enriching its revolving-door cronies in the security industrial complex [1][2], who in turn give us security theater in order to justify the government bankrupting itself partly by enriching its cronies... ad infinitum.
And the casualties are our rights and civil liberties and ultimately a potential currency-centered financial crisis that could make 2007/2008 look like spilled milk. What's going on is not sustainable in any way, shape, or form, and cannot end well. If Anonymous, Wikileaks, or anyone else helps shine light on this insanity before its too late, even if they have to be a little naughty but not truly evil to do so, then more power to them.
Seriously, these 'hackers' could be contributing to the greater good of our civilization by writing tools and methodologies to make network security not so asymmetric in favor of attackers. It's really a shame that they don't see they are hurting real people and doing real damage.
Well, they care about the attention and spotlight. Doing good things is secondary or not in your goal at all.
It's all about signaling unless you are seriously genuinely interested in improving humanity's lot, not just feeling good for doing something good. (One way to test that is to do anonymously random act of kindness without being recongnized by the public or anyone)
Thing is, they could be doing random, unknown acts of kindness and you'd still be complaining they want the spotlght. Since they aren't publicized, you wouldn't know if they did.
But yeah, this backlash is pretty childish on both ends.
