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Should car engineers feel bad because a few people have used the cars they designed improperly and intentionally killed people with them?
by cronix 8y ago
Should car engineers feel bad because a few people have used the cars they designed improperly and intentionally killed people with them?
- sj3k 8y agoThe context is not the same for the car engineers compared to engineer knowingly working on something with the explicit purpose to harm people
- cronix 8y agoRight, and the context of the software is to catch terrorists and cybercriminals, and it was misused, as all tech can be. "The explicit purpose to harm people" is not an accurate description of the softwares primary purpose.
- mindslight 8y agoThe terms "terrorists" and "cybercriminals" are basically euphemisms for political enemies.
- mikeyouse 8y agoExactly -- and there's no veneer of legitimacy. NSO has been caught red-handed multiple times selling to atrocious governments. Every single person connected to that company is okay helping despots murder political rivals and dissidents. Just awful.
- abalone 8y agoThe correct analogy would be a software engineer who crafts hacks for autonomous cars that tracks drivers to their locations, then sells them to oppressive regimes that go murder them. Yes, those engineers are scum of the earth.
- netcan 8y agonot necessarily an analogy.