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Posted by: Jim Hlavac Nov 20, 09:00 AM
"While hacking into the institute's records is inappropriate if not illegal" ?
Just a thought -- radical even -- but isn't breaking the enemy's code in time of war or peril a social good?
I'm sure the Nazis had a law against hacking into Enigma. The British did not follow that law.
Would a private Brit in WWII not have 'hacked' into the mail of a neighbor he knew was a Nazi to save the nation from the enemy within?
Ditto the Russians in the cold war. And spies among us. Ditto not following the law.
If a group of people somewhat paid by us the taxpayer (a public university, indeed,) is out to steal more of our money and our liberty do not we, a free people, have the right to defend ourselves from further fraud? If they did conspire to commit scientific fraud did they not commit the crime? And are the hackers but whistleblowers? In my eyes, whistleblowing in the defense of freedom is no vice.