It's perfectly ethical to write open source code that will crash a passenger jet Really? We’re not talking about bugs here, we’re talking about the deliberate

It's perfectly ethical to write open source code that will crash a passenger jet Really? We’re not talking about bugs here, we’re talking about the deliberate inclusion of dangerous logic traps based on assumptions that could be wrong. In engineering terms, this is trying to solve the problem at the wrong level of abstraction. Maybe you don’t like the thought of your code being used in weapons; that’s perfectly reasonable. Maybe you want to rid the world of such weapons; also reasonable. My advice would be that open source is not the right model in those circumstances, and that to really solve the problem you’ll have to be politically engaged. Littering code with booby traps and publishing it is an absolutely awful idea, one that should not be acceptable to us as a professional community.