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"You're such a hero for brutally murdering this traitor!" (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 28 points 23 hours ago

Explanation: The man who betrayed the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae, leading the Persian forces to outflank them through a narrow mountain pass, Ephialtes, had a bounty placed on his head by Sparta for it.

The man who eventually killed Ephialtes apparently did it for reason of a private, unrelated feud. The Spartans paid him the bounty anyway. A kill is a kill!