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Here’s a better solution: change the laws! Knowing the audience of this forum, you’re probably American and under 35. You have lived your whole life with an in
by philistine 3y ago
Here’s a better solution: change the laws!
Knowing the audience of this forum, you’re probably American and under 35. You have lived your whole life with an inoperable legislator. The US Congress, through a mixture of time-honored traditions with unfathomable externalities (there can never be more than this amount of representatives) and disinterested sports-like politics, is unable to print new laws in a reactive fashion. This means that kludges, with their own unfathomable externalities, look like sane solutions. They’re not. A functioning democracy would set up a legal framework for ethical research.
- tptacek 3y agoYou get that the legal situation for this stuff is even gnarlier in Europe, right?
- McDyver 3y agoBelgium legalises ethical hacking: https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/belgium-legalises-ethical-hacking-a-threat-or-an-opportunity-for-cybersecurity/ https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/belgium-legalises-eth... HN thread from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847860
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoBefore COVID, Belgium didn't have a government for 2 years because they couldn't get along enough to form one.