oh I agree 10000000% ... but I don't believe extortion is the right way to go about it... the tard should have released them on his own without having someone hack in there to get them.
Jon Matonis wrote an article about
why blackmail is victimless and therefore not morally wrong and could be socially useful.
But I think you should look at this little PR stunt in a different light. bitcoins are the blood, like USD, EUR, YEN, etc., Bitcoin is the veins, like Visa, Paypal, Mastercard, Cirrus, etc. and the Bitcoin economy is the muscular system. This little PR stunt has started discussions among all kinds of people about Bitcoin or, in other words, the
now open Pandora's box.
Plus, any publicity is, for the most part, good publicity. People will Google "bitcoin" watch the
What Is Bitcoin? video and be on their way to joining the Bitcoin economy.
How much would this publicity cost for Visa or Mastercard? How much did this publicity cost? 2 USB drives, postage, two sheets of paper and some ink from a magic marker. How many resources are being spent 'investigating', tracking down the leak, etc.?
So for $25 there are hundreds of thousands of people learning about Bitcoin (it was on Yahoo's homepage, etc.) and probably millions of dollars being spent by Romney, SS, PWC, etc.
Talk about a force multiplier!
