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Re:The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do by AlexandrB on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:15PM (#11807414)
"The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir

Right out of school I worked at a company that builds deep packet inspection hardware and it seems like a dream job: good pay, smart people, interesting problems, reasonable schedule. Too bad about the product though.

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Re:The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do by kbenson on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:40PM (#11807620)
I don't really see a problem with working on something like that. There's a legitimate use for technologies like that. The problems are laws and social structures that allow those technologies to be abused. I don't fault the engineer who makes a better gun, but I might fault the marketing department that sells it in a market knowing it will be used for harm (don't be a war profiteer), or the the politicians that resist sane restrictions .
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