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doge.gov got hacked (web.archive.org)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] floofloof 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The ethical route, ie “white hat”, is to contact the owners about the exploit with a fixed period disclosure. Ie, “fix this in 30-90 days, or we will publish our method”.

I'm not sure that is the ethical route when you're talking about disrupting the operations of a Nazi-led government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Hmm, maybe I mean moral?
Like, there is a correct way to go about something regardless of context.
As opposed to doing something because of the context.

Any exploit should be notified to the software/platform maintainers with a proper disclosure timeline to ensure it gets fixed in a timely way.
That is the correct way.

Abusing the shit out of a poorly implemented nazi government is the moral thing to do, but would go against a white hat's ethics. Collectively a good thing to do, but not the correct thing to do as a white hat.

Are gray hats more ethically and morally true?
This is getting to deep for me.