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> Those suggesting this could be used to "just" hack random citizens are exaggerating. That would not be accepted by the oversight agencies. In most countries,
by bscphil 3y ago
> Those suggesting this could be used to "just" hack random citizens are exaggerating. That would not be accepted by the oversight agencies.
In most countries, good governance is considered to be writing laws in such a way that abuse by the government is a violation of the written word of the law, not merely in opposition to its spirit or intent as interpreted by the government's own agencies.
- jfengel 3y agoSuch things are easier said than done. Humans aren't computers. They have far more behaviors, and infinite corner cases. Writing laws that cover all of them is incredibly difficult, and as soon as you do something pops up that you didn't anticipate. It's the reason all of your license agreements and other contracts are so long. Every phrase and sentence is there because something went wrong. It doesn't let them off the hook for the fact that legislatures often do badly. But even with the best of intentions and the best skill things are still never as thorough as a programmer would like them to be, because programming people is way harder.
- pessimizer 3y ago> They have far more behaviors, and infinite corner cases. Writing laws that cover all of them is incredibly difficult, and as soon as you do something pops up that you didn't anticipate. Pretty irrelevant in this case, where we're talking about easy, obvious ways to abuse this rule. Your "it's all so complicated" argument relies on ignoring the substance of the objections to making ones victimization an opportunity to reduce their civil rights, and moving into generalization and vague abstraction.