<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d argue the opposite. The AM hack hasn&amp;#x27;t helped at all, since enough people view it as a just retribution due to it being about a pet moral value that is held dear, namely marital fidelity. And to others, it&amp;#x27;s all a big joke.&lt;p&gt;The cheating cheaters (who likely never got the opportunity to cheat) have been named and shamed, and because of those asserting that it&amp;#x27;s acceptable to do this if it strokes their personal moral vendetta, then this type of chilling privacy violation is on its way to being normalized.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smtddr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t condone this hack, but morals&amp;#x2F;ethics aside for a moment:&lt;p&gt;The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically &amp;amp; economically powerful demographic in the world....</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Hacked Ashley Madison?</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pascalmemories</author><text>Unfortunately, that&amp;#x27;s not how the &amp;quot;politically &amp;amp; economically powerful demographic in the world&amp;quot; works.&lt;p&gt;What you &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; see is lots of new laws to crack down on hackers, encryption and any type of computing not specifically &amp;#x27;approved&amp;#x27; by some sort of security overlord department.&lt;p&gt;Look at what the UK is proposing (way before AM became news) and you&amp;#x27;ll have a rough starting point.&lt;p&gt;The laws will be the exact &lt;i&gt;opposite&lt;/i&gt; of improved privacy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smtddr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t condone this hack, but morals&amp;#x2F;ethics aside for a moment:&lt;p&gt;The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically &amp;amp; economically powerful demographic in the world....</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Hacked Ashley Madison?</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/</url></story>