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> [...] they're talking about one case where someone wrote highly unethical software. It is worse. Oxygen, a chemical substance, is used by highly immoral huma
by Fnoord 7y ago
> [...] they're talking about one case where someone wrote highly unethical software.
It is worse. Oxygen, a chemical substance, is used by highly immoral human beings, such as Kim Jong-un, to breathe, and continue living and causing havoc on the oppressed North Koreans. These immoral human beings are also eating and drinking. Cars are used to kill people as well. iFixit toolsets could also be used for this purpose. CPUs and other hardware are being used to exploit Chinese citizens via GFW and cameras. Meanwhile, evil girlfriends can abuse RATs to spy on their boyfriends as well.
Instead of these ridiculous narratives we need to look at
1) The main purpose of a tool.
2) The relative abuse of the tool, or collateral damage, and the impact of such abuse and damage.
Which is why the above examples, and OpenSSH Server as well, are each bad examples.
It is a lot more difficult, to be nuanced. I'd like to learn more about the exact software, and where it was advertised back in the days (2012 apparently). Was it legitimately used?