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Comment by fnordfnordfnord | Hacker News Reader

It has been quite long enough since the Stratfor data breach for the CC companies to close & reissue new card numbers. This is much ado about nothing.

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Exactly what cause has been advanced by making them available?

Maybe we'll be able to identify some people who voted for Stratfor with their pocketbooks. That finding wouldn't make me sad.

You want to internet mob justice on people who simply subscribed to a news service you don't like?

That appears to be what he is advocating, yes.

Next on WikiLeaks: credit card #'s and home addresses to subscribers to Fox News and MSNBC. It's the wild, wild west.

There's a big difference between saying there's something on the Internet for no great cause (stop the presses!) and saying that something on the Internet is causing unfair personal damage.

When is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage? Doesn't there need to be some greater, overriding justification? If not then isn't this just internet mob justice (and as usual, if there's some collateral damage, so be it)?

> When is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage?

A lot of the time. For example, it's fair to rat out a cop who acts inappropriately or give a negative review to an eBay seller who scams you.

Filtering this stuff reliably isn't exactly free.

Just needs a quick regex! (now you have two problems: ) http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

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