Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 hours agoAnd that person still needs approval and a four hour zoom call to push anything into a position where it can make a difference.
You don’t need approval when you are a criminal and have used exploits to gain root access to the company’s computers.
You think Aaron Swartz was on Zoom meetings to get approval before picking the lock to the network closet, hacking root and downloading all the University’s public research papers?
This is you:
“No one can rob a bank. Think of the meetings needed to get HR to approve bringing a gun in the building.”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Downloading a bunch of data from educational systems is significantly easier than getting exploits into banks and financial systems, which is what I assumed a Robin Hood hacker would be doing.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Banks are hacked too:
techcrunch.com/…/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data…
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Another data theft, which is not what people envision when they think “Robin Hood.”
They’re picturing a Mr. Robot-like restructuring of the financial system, or even just eliminating debt like was proposed in Sneakers, or even just moving money around like that one episode of SeaQuest with Tim Russ.
And to do that you need a lot of people to get code anywhere near production, and everything is audited, and the timelines are measured in quarters.
Randomocity@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Or they could just ransomware the money from the big companies and give it away