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US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: The Islamic State hacker detained at Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur, has been identified as 20-year-old Kosovo student name Ardit Ferizi. The U.S. arrest warrant alleges that the Kosovo hacker executed computer attacks and committed theft violations, stealing the personally identifiable information of members of the U.S. military and federal employees. The Department of Justice warned that the leaked data was intended for the "purpose of encouraging terrorist attacks against those individuals."
It is akin to intellectual property, so property-related words are fine to use in this context, as they always have been.
Perpetrators, of which some you no doubt support, self-describe as "pirates".
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Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
And there are people around the world who believe that the Americans are terrorists for invading countries, torturing people, and doing things like blowing up hospitals. And they are taking your advice and killing the terrorists.
BTW, the Russians aren't targeting ISIS. They are leaving that to the others. The Russians are bombing the rebels who were allied with the US that are going after Assad. The idea is that Russia and Assad can take out Assad's enemies while the rest of the world can work on ISIS. Then when Assad has complete control of Syria again then he can concentrate on ISIS.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Theft
a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
Taking something that doesn't belong to you where it does not deprive the owner of it is not theft. It could be considered copying; or copyright infringement, perhaps, but not theft per se.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.