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2011-03-13 Home Front: Politix

Hacker group Anonymous says it will release Bank of America emails

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Posted by tipper 2011-03-13 19:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ANON 1, comments? What puzzling form will Anon1's defense of wikileaks take this time around?

Posted by Fi 2011-03-13 20:09|| 2011-03-13 20:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Who cares about anon1?

If BoA employees, or the corporation, committed crimes, they should be denounced, prosecuted, and punished.

True freedom is not permission to defraud, steal, or kill.

Posted by Lover of 1776 2011-03-13 22:00|| 2011-03-13 22:00|| Front Page Top

#3
True freedom is not permission to defraud, steal, or kill

Ummm, okay. So making the BofA less productive by going forward with this is going to hurt who? Ultimately, BofA customers will be passed the cost of the loss in productivity. B of A customers are just citizen Americans who will really be the ones who are punished, Robin Hood. I just unpacked your stupid theory. Toodles!

Posted by Fi 2011-03-13 22:05|| 2011-03-13 22:05|| Front Page Top

#4 What is your argument? criminals should not be punished? BoA is above the law?

Posted by Lover of 1776 2011-03-13 22:07|| 2011-03-13 22:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course not, but anonymous hacking is above the law, too, if you use lawfulness as a measure of good.

My argument is the only practical one: if Bof A goes down by way of hacking, the cost of recovery will either me ameliorated through fees to account holders, or by another "bail out" from the gov where the cost still comes out of the average American's hide. Anonymous hackers are simple fools with technological skills enough to make them terrorists, but that doesn't mean they have common sense. If you're going after B of A you're going after the common American.

Posted by Fi 2011-03-13 22:12|| 2011-03-13 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 If the hacked BoA e-mails are incriminating enough to collapse BoA, then the real crime is that it took THIS to bring them down. And DON'T f*ing bail them out!

Posted by Glenmore 2011-03-13 22:33|| 2011-03-13 22:33|| Front Page Top

#7 if Bof A goes down by way of hacking, the cost of recovery will either me ameliorated through fees to account holders, or by another "bail out" from the gov where the cost still comes out of the average American's hide. Anonymous hackers are simple fools with technological skills enough to make them terrorists, but that doesn't mean they have common sense. If you're going after B of A you're going after the common American.
Oh dear, so much to comment on. BofA is one of the TBTF institutions, which coincidentally also had a great deal to do causing the worldwide economic disaster. The US gov't contributed by dumping its useful regulations (Glass-Steagall, limitations on BofA leverage, exempting CDS from long-standing legal restrictions, etc.), and by simply failing to use the regulations & power it already had (see Greenspan & the Bernank).
There is a lot of evidence of BofA's criminal activity, justifying a blizzard of DofJ subpoenas. This was before Wikileaks came on the scene. Of course we have Eric "Place" Holder as US AG and his boss who are in the pockets of the financial industry, so little or nothing has been or will be done. Can't imagine anything Wikileaks can come up with that will be worse than what is already known or suspected.
There is also a lot of evidence that BofA has been insolvent since the very start of this crisis, but the gov't has not been willing to go into this part of the problem, since it needs some banks standing to support the rest. Insolvent banks need to be put out of business, maintaining them as zombies only makes things worse. The bank bailouts were zombie life support systems. Common Americans are now and will be suffering from the consequences of these bailouts for years to come. The only obligation the US really has to BofA is the deposit insurance the FDIC might have to provide,the rest is the responsibility of private individuals, like the executives, stockholders & creditors of BofA. Let them be the big losers. That is where the interest of common Americans diverges from the BofA.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-13 22:54|| 2011-03-13 22:54|| Front Page Top

#8 B of A is already tainted. AKA the gym membership defense. If they can get away with that, will Anonymous hackers exposing lurid emails make one bit of difference? http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/03/11/bank-of-americas-gym-membership-defense/?KEYWORDS=Bank+of+America

Whatever Anonymous digs up may or may not make change the game and may look silly, which may egg the hackers towards further and more damaging mayhem. Meanwhile, moms and pops have their mortgages, checking and savings with them. Anyone really believe it could be dissolved without depositors losing money? I don't.

Posted by Fi 2011-03-13 23:19|| 2011-03-13 23:19|| Front Page Top

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