> If assuring your code is memory-safe is "engaging in politics", then literally everything is political That's precisely OP's argument -- everything is politi

> If assuring your code is memory-safe is "engaging in politics", then literally everything is political That's precisely OP's argument -- everything is political. Taking this a step further, surely creating the world's first atomic weapons had political impact, and who is to say that any arbitrary technological advance couldn't be used in unforseen ways in the future with similar political import? Everything we work on is potentially political. I used to be a DoD scientist, and let me say you would be shocked by the list of seemingly mundane technologies that are then picked up and used in warfare or in support of the surveillance state. The code you write today could affect the drone strikes of five years from now, without you ever knowing. DoD regularly reverse-engineers open source projects and internally re-releases them. Everything is political