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Informing others and providing an explanation for why people should be discouraged from using a malicious tool is not virtue signaling. Trying to discourage pe
by jkachmar 7y ago
Informing others and providing an explanation for why people should be discouraged from using a malicious tool is not virtue signaling.
Trying to discourage people from disseminating this information under the auspices of “virtue signaling” is unhelpful.
Some people build technology, some people research and critique it.
Would you tell researchers who demonstrate critical vulnerabilities in technology that they should build something better instead of just talking about it?
- fsflover 7y agoMoreover, often there is something better, people just do not know about it.
- throwaway98797 7y agoIt’s odd. I wouldn’t tell security researchers to build something better. Yet on these high-level comments I have a reaction to tell to build rather than critique. It must be that the OP faults a company that’s providing tremendous value to society. It’s not without its faults, but to focus on that seem petty? Tone death? The more I think about your retort of the security the more I think it’s a false comparison. The good ones, demonstrate exactly what the problem is and sometimes even provide a solution. Here the solution is to use software that has more friction, that robs the grandmas of the world of connection and waste peoples time fixing technology. So with that I stand by my original comment of don’t criticize, build.