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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by baddox on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:30AM (#16721907)
But I think some things are justifiable by that argument. A great example of that is the public disclosure of software vulnerabilities. If you’re not malicious, and you find a bad bug, chances are a malicious actor will eventually find the bug too.
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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by andreareina on Saturday March 31, 2018 @02:59AM (#16722148)
Doing X to mitigate the harm of someone else with bad intentions doing the same is not in the same category as doing X because "it's cool" or "money".
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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by Old_Thrashbarg on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:29AM (#16722227)
The equivalent example would be: "I might as well hack this account and take all the money because if I don't, someone else will".

I have no problem with: "I should inform the developers of the vulnerability (perhaps publicly to pressure them) so that it will be fixed because someone will hack it otherwise".

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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by baddox on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:43AM (#16722403)
We were literally talking about building technologies that might be used in harmful ways. Discovering and developing software exploits is a direct example of this.
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