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The people who carry out the orders are not the ones giving the orders. Just because they're being ordered to "hack into Gmail" doesn't mean they have to find c
by swombat 15y ago
The people who carry out the orders are not the ones giving the orders. Just because they're being ordered to "hack into Gmail" doesn't mean they have to find creative ways to do so. This blog post, however, provides useful, practical, exact, almost step-by-step suggestions to the people giving the orders.
I've not lived in a dictatorship, but my parents have, and from their stories, I gather that most of the smart people in a dictatorship do not really want to help the regime, but they have to because otherwise their lives or their families' lives and careers could be destroyed.
By pointing out exactly how they should do it, this article removes the wiggle room of plausible deniability that "we didn't know there was another way to do it".
- mtogo 15y agoYour argument is like saying that we shouldn't discuss guns since any criminal could just realize that guns kill people and start killing people.