Ramblings of the day.

So, I best not fall back here. So keeping it up.

Don't have much to put in words today.
Been trying to get at #ingress for a while and was prepared to wait until open Beta. but it seems I got lucky, so I'm one of the few invited. And that is something special. I notice loads of people been waiting a month for this, Putting in work hours, like suggesting portals, creating artwork, solving riddles or try to solve them. But alas they are cheated.
I must admit I haven't been shy to vent my frustration over my inability to solve the riddles or even get any headway with them, even if almost presented with the solution. And as a countermeasure I'd been pulling of something that is called a bruteforce attack.

Those of you that don't know what Ingress or Bruteforceattack is:
Ingress is a game google launched November 15th. and it's essentially about capturing/saving the world. It's a game that takes place in the real world, so if you see someone standing close to a cultural monument of sorts, and fiddling with their phone. there's a good chance it's ingress. Try asking them some can be funny.

Bruteforce attack is essentially testing for a pass code.
Say you have a password that is a letter. For me to guess it I would be pretty sure to get it if testing 25 different letters. Just starting with a, b, c.....
Ingress invitation codes are 8 letters, so bruteforcing that would mean I'd test AAAAAAAA, then AAAAAAAB....AAAAAABA, AAAAAABB etc etc. Eventually I'm supposed to hit a correct combination and I'm fairly good at doing a manual task like that until completion.

Maybe people realized that once I'd succeed, I would effectively steal a code from someone else. So giving me a code directly might have been a preventive measure. But I don't really care, I'm in.

Still it puts my hard natured morale compass at work. I know it's not fair for someone. But is it globally fair. The goals justifies the means?
How far should one be willing to damage someone else in order to attain their goals? When does it become unacceptable. What line needs to be cross before it's simply no longer okay to abuse intimate knowledge of the system?