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Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨along_the_road@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are we calling stable diffusion a hacking tool now? What about image editors like GIMP?

    This is just sexual harassment/abuse, which was always there, moving along to new tools. The tool isn’t the problem, the people are.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Decreasing friction is a problem though. In the past, you needed at least some basic skills to e.g. photoshop a compromising photo of someone (and quite a lot of experience to do so convincingly), whereas current AI tools can do this far better with no skills required.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sharing images without consent is hardly a new thing either and requires no more skill than copy/paste. Perhaps that would have been a better example to go with.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed. Not only are harassment and abuse not new, but using actual hacking tools to do it is old news too. Maybe the article is just trying to bring it back to attention.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        All I hear from that context is “slow news day.”

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  • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SOME men

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    • sanzky@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      if that wording is what bothers you, you are part of the problem

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      • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        SOME problem.

        Not the one presented here.

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    • irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      God, shut uuuup

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      • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m not god of any sort.

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    • helix@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Many men.

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      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Too many men.

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    • portifornia@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree.

      • Men don’t do this, duchbags do.
      • People don’t do this, predators do.
      • Humans don’t do this, blights on the species do.
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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.

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      • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In that sense it implies the habit being common. It’s not.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    First off, the story doesn’t back up the hed. All we know for certain is that these “hacking tools” are being offered. Apparently, some of these channels charge for entry …

    Often, the group’s report says, access to Telegram channels would cost between €20 ($23) and €50 or have subscriptions starting at €5 per month.

    I’m not excusing the exploitative nature of these groups, but this sounds more like grifting than hacking. I expect better from Wired. Also, we’ve known for years now that Telegram is leaky as fuck.

    The whole situation is a bit baffling. “Here’s something everyone knows has been going on for a while” ain’t exactly stop-press.

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  • along_the_road@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    archive.ph/OFhDs

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