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I have seen this software (well, not this software, a military equivalent) save a life in real time so it'd be very hard to convince me. Quoting an earlier rep
by inglor 5y ago
I have seen this software (well, not this software, a military equivalent) save a life in real time so it'd be very hard to convince me.
Quoting an earlier reply from last year:
> When I was in the Israeli army, I personally saw a phone being hacked, info being pulled and the info being used to stop a terrorist attack targeting civilians. I was not involved in the hack (I served in the navy).
> In that particular case (but not the majority of cases) the target of the hack was an Israeli citizen who was practicing terrorism (against the Arab minority). After their info was intercepted they were arrested and the situation was de-escalated.
- srean 5y agoSuch unverifiable, and easy to claim justifications (often used to whitewash acts of dubious morality, like torture etc.) do not do much though.
- aaaaaaaaaa1 5y agoThis is an edge case, and is not a legitimate justification that billions of global users should need to worry about. The right to data privacy and right to free speech is more important than the lives in this scenario. At the permanent cost of inherit human freedoms and rights, you save a few thousand lives within a short time horizon. Over a longer time horizon, that same system that saved thousands of lives will kill millions more, and it will be done in total silence of anyone that dares to speak up and be a dissident.