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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by dmos62 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:20AM (#25168324)
Whistle blowing anonymously for a technical person isn't complicated.
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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by kybernetikos on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:17AM (#25169301)
Lots of people would regard it as unethical however.
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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by dmos62 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:06AM (#25169795)
Whistle blowing? Isn't it ethical by definition? What could be an example of unethical whistle blowing?
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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by kybernetikos on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:55AM (#25176760)
Most instances of whistle blowing are situations where a person has promised not to reveal something and then decided to. Situations like that are necessarily an ethical trade off - the person doing the whistle blowing has decided that keeping their word is less important ethically than revealing the secret but this is a very subjective decision that different people (and ethical systems) can and do have different opinions on.
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