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This is getting quite irresponsible and sad. The reason nothing too terrible(apart from election tampering) has yet happened is simply because the current mark
by nisten 8y ago
This is getting quite irresponsible and sad.
The reason nothing too terrible(apart from election tampering) has yet happened is simply because the current market demand for developers prevents us from engaging in malicious behaviour.
However, once there's a market downturn, this data will be used for criminal purposes in no time. The malware industry in east european countries with good engineering talent exploded in the 90s after their economies collapsed.
But who cares right?
I feel like this level of naivety towards powering interoperability with brute openness today is just plain stupid and will lead towards a backlash or risk all out witch-hunt against developers and intellectuals in general.
That risk is becoming unacceptable in my opinion and it is worth it to start regulating a bit our profession.
- justinclift 8y ago> The reason nothing too terrible(apart from election tampering) has yet happened is simply because the current market demand for developers prevents us from engaging in malicious behaviour. That doesn't seem to be how humans work. Groups that want to do malicious stuff are able to hire people too (eg electon tampering as you mention). They'd probably have to direct their hiring efforts differently though. Probably towards known areas of er... scum and villany? ;) Seriously though, they managed to hire people for the electon tampering, so at least it shows it can be done.
- nisten 8y agoYes it can be done, but the probability of malicious players finding someone competent enough is quite low. It's unlikely you would help a shady organization when you have a high salary and a nice life. However this also means that security relies on the state of the market rather than on good code.