Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by quickthrower2 on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:26AM (#24105853)

The more abstract the problem the less people care. Police suffocating someone to death > 1,000,000 people being subtly spied on. "I got nothing to hide" after all.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by walrus01 on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:35AM (#24105902)

The farther away and more abstract the problem, it's absolutely more difficult to get people to care. Trying to get Americans to care about what's going on with prison camps in Xinjiang province right now is difficult, if not impossible, outside of the subset of people who deeply care about the issues involved.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by tekknik on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:39AM (#24119648)

In this specific example say we do care, then what? What will it change? (Not theoretical change, actual change)

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by MaxBarraclough on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:05AM (#24107093)

> "I got nothing to hide" after all

But that's a thoroughly discredited argument.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21416115

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923548

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by quickthrower2 on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:26AM (#24107217)

Sorry that’s a /s

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by MaxBarraclough on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:27AM (#24107583)

Ah, got it :-P

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