The difficulty in judging hacking and leaks is distinguishing the ones intended to harm from the ones intended to benefit. If hacking and leaks are thefts of information like credit card numbers to be used to steal, then those are bad. “Thou shalt not steal” applies to such criminal thefts. On the other hand, thefts of e-mails from large public institutions like government have possible beneficial intentions, namely, to raise the level of accountability of powerful players in society. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is a powerful player, being the organization that participates in placing before America one of the … Continue reading The Case for Hacking and Leaks