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"Cyberbit Solutions offers its products only to sovereign governmental authorities and law enforcement agencies," the letter, headed "Re: Your Letter Dated Nove

"Cyberbit Solutions offers its products only to sovereign governmental authorities and law enforcement agencies," the letter, headed "Re: Your Letter Dated November 29, 2017," stated. "Such governmental authorities and law enforcement agencies are responsible to ensure that they are legally authorized to use the products in their jurisdictions. Cyberbit Solutions products greatly contribute to national security and law enforcement where its products are used." How much tech originating from universities / OSS projects are in those products? An interesting moral dilemma.

frozenport 9y ago
Not really because much of the OSS tech is dual use. Indeed, should Linus be worried that cyber-criminals use Linux?
boomboomsubban 9y ago
What is an interesting moral dilemma? A bad actor benefits from free software made to benefit everyone? The bad actors would still exist in a proprietary only environment, just need to buy more licenses.
leggomylibro 9y ago
>The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil. - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Blessed Struggle" Yeesh, I can't believe that Brian Reynolds went on to work for Zynga...