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Re:Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Dat... by drak0n1c on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#23851698)
What if there was personal address doxxing of all software engineers claiming we're creepy hackers? Would such be justified because a number of us have had some small degree of indirect or direct contribution toward mass privacy violations?
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Re:Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Dat... by RangerScience on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:25PM (#23852099)
What percent of software engineers have to be creepy hackers for the rest of us to be complicit in their actions? 50%? 75%? 10%?
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Re:Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Dat... by bigwavedave on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:12AM (#23859794)
If x% of software engineers are child porn peddlers, are the rest complicit because they can't stop them from storing it, sharing it, selling it, etc?
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Re:Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Dat... by RangerScience on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:40PM (#23861510)
FTFY:

> If x% of software engineering work is making child porn websites

The issue prompting ACAB (as I understand it) isn't so much "how many cops are bigots" (personal racism) as "how much of the work cops do is racist" (structural & systemic racism).

There's still a degree that as part of a social group with someone, I'm complicit in who they are a person - the German "ten people and a nazi" saying.

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