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I understand. Mainly I'm just worried that people aren't thinking things through completely when they make a tool like this freely available. Personally I expe
by NathanKP 16y ago
I understand. Mainly I'm just worried that people aren't thinking things through completely when they make a tool like this freely available.
Personally I expect that Firesheep will be used mostly by 4chan, script kiddies, and others who just want lulz. Idiocy is clearly an attempt to use the same concepts for good, but it is still mildly worrying from the point of view of the methods being used to accomplish the goal. Like I said, it feels like a terrorist-style attention grabber to me.
- Natsu 16y agoCould we not use "terrorist style" to describe things like this? I don't think anybody is going to get killed over this.
- NathanKP 16y agoI think it is sort of interesting that terrorism is such a loaded term that people object to its use. Terrorism doesn't have to involve killing people. It just means scaring people into doing what you want.
- randallsquared 16y agoYou really want to argue that security system salespeople are terrorists? Really?
- Natsu 16y agoWhile I understand what you're saying, the problem with terms like that is that they shut down rational thought for many people. It's by no means the only such term, though: 'Republican' and 'Democrat' have the same kind of effect for a very large percentage of the problem with thoughts equivalent to, "Oh, he's an X. That tells me all I need to know about him and I don't have to know anything else."