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That's fucked up. This is precisely why, if you have any ounce of morality or ethics left in your body, you shouldn't develop any technology for use by governme

by omouse 15y ago

That's fucked up. This is precisely why, if you have any ounce of morality or ethics left in your body, you shouldn't develop any technology for use by governments or law enforcement. The potential for abuse is large and x-raying like this is a clear invasion of privacy.

mahyarm 15y ago
Then we shouldn't work in voip because governments can spy on peoples conversations, or many other things that are abusable?
- omouse 15y ago
  No I was talking about making software and giving access to spies such as the government. I think programmers should consider the privacy and ethical implications of whatever they create.
- dkersten 15y ago
  Or pretty much any other technology.
einhverfr 15y ago
You know, I disagree. I have several possible contracts for training governments around the world on open source software, governments I think we'd all like to see remain stable. I do think we have to consider the ethical implications of product development generally, and I think we need to be willing to refuse to sell products and services to government and law enforcement agencies when this raises concerns and problems. But I don't think that extends to all technologies. The people who wrote SE-Linux for example have done us all a favor.