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What if the router was being unused? What if the power usage was minimal? I think it is unethical not to utilize resources that are being wasted.
by rubatuga 8y ago
What if the router was being unused? What if the power usage was minimal? I think it is unethical not to utilize resources that are being wasted.
- dymk 8y agoI hope your parents taught you to ask before invading somebody's personal property. Are you okay with XYZ Tech Company snooping on your private messages, emails, or credit card transactions? The impact that you'd see would be minimal (aside from more targeted ads, perhaps), and it's data which would otherwise be "wasted" if nobody was mining it.
- rubatuga 8y agoI hope your parents taught you that too, thanks. Anyways, no its not okay for XYZ because they are invading the privacy of people's lives as a means to make more money. In the other circumstance, you would be using unused resources, not invading privacy, and contributing to projects such as Folding@home, which hopes to solve hard protein folding problems in order to better humanity.