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Re:Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified by Jach on Monday July 09, 2018 @03:27PM (#17492759)
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a "DestroyBaghdad" procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a "DestroyCity" procedure, to which "Baghdad" could be given as a parameter."

--Nathaniel Borenstein

It's kind of hard to disagree...

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Re:Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified by thebluehawk on Monday July 09, 2018 @03:35PM (#17492818)
True, no ethical engineer would write "DestroyBaghdad", but how about perfectly reasonable "set custom threshold for test" function that lets the client pick? And then the client chooses an unethical value.
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