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Thought experiment on legitimizing hacking (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is common for companies to neglect financing in cyber security for a quick short term gain. And at the same time the laws are created such that an offensive hacker would be the criminal. By turning the law around the blame would be on the company for building insecure systems, just like it is right now companies get problems if they would create unsafe products for consumers.

What do you think would happen if laws would change in such a way, that gaining unauthorized access would become legal? Note that I've intentionally excluded permission to share sensitive information. Would love to read your responses and thoughts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

While capitalism is on shaky ground, if it survives the argument against this is it allows auditing of code and product quality by third-parties, instead of providing cover for corruption. Illegally breaking in is legal if you touch nothing and report it... At least, in most countries.

Sadly, I doubt the US official government's remains care about anything but having as many scapegoats as possible.