I see what you're saying but I hoped to provoke a discussion on how we as hackers and founders can use this to our advantage, and whether or not it would be eth

I see what you're saying but I hoped to provoke a discussion on how we as hackers and founders can use this to our advantage, and whether or not it would be ethically/morally right to do so. By this I don't mean start pretending to be terror experts or distort the truth, but I do think that understanding how these things escalate and are distorted can prepare us for an advantage in our own media relations. What does HN think? How can we use knowledge of the way modern media jumps on bandwagons like this to our advantage?