Media are shit, they'd worship Satan if it brought them more ad impressions. But yeah, laws might be unjust, civil disobedience, yada yada. But seriously - this is not the case here. The hackers aren't a part of a social movement prepared to proudly go to jail for the case of making cheating illegal.
> The hackers aren't a part of a social movement prepared to proudly go to jail for the case of making cheating illegal.
They also aren't guided by morals at all. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that releasing this data would have massive life-ruining repercussions for both good and bad people. Applauding the hackers is incredibly naive, unfortunately that seems to be the theme of this thread.
Vigilantism is by no means categorically "bad". Sometimes it is the correct, ethically responsible action, such as when an existing system is too corrupt and incapable of delivering justice.
Correctness is subjective, as are ethics. All we have is consensus, and the benefit of exposing ideas to debate.
If you allow individuals to take the law into their own hands, without counsel maybe one time in 100 you'll get an Edward Snowden, the other 99 will be the kind of people who beat up trans kids.
