Sure, lawyer rules have a great deal of influence as to obligations of a contractor and the decorum they're supposed to operate with. Programmers could do bette

Sure, lawyer rules have a great deal of influence as to obligations of a contractor and the decorum they're supposed to operate with. Programmers could do better there. That's not what the post I was responding to was talking about. It was talking about "all immoral or unethical activity", and specifically about surveillance, dark patterns, data aggregation, and cyber warfare. Lawyers have signed off on all of those behaviors at their organizations (particularly the surveillance and cyber warfare ones). They've done contortions to get them "approved" in contracts. If the lawyers at those organizations okayed it, it's fascicle to pretend engineering ethics would've stopped it. Further, when talking about "all immoral or unethical activity" it's entirely germain to point out lawyers routinely engage in both without consequence. tl;dr: Lawyer rules are about professional standards, not conduct. You can represent the devil in his suit to rule the world, you just need to be polite and bill fairly.