Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source
by javajosh on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:39PM
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I agree, but I also believe communication should be consensual. That is, the recipient must give consent to install the malware. Otherwise the transmission is a commission of fraud against the recipient.
That said, such a law is difficult to enforce, in a justice system as moribund as ours, so instead we rely on (probably wrong) heuristics about what specific behavior makes us safe, and indeed, whether or not our resources have already been breached. Such behavior is what drives the overwhelming dominance of GMail, which is itself a remarkable tool with which to learn about any person group corporation government on the planet. So in terms of utility its hard to argue that malware is a good to society. Write a malware that installs a patch to prevent a 0-day in known use by a state actor, then I will be a malware fanboy. Not until then.
That said, such a law is difficult to enforce, in a justice system as moribund as ours, so instead we rely on (probably wrong) heuristics about what specific behavior makes us safe, and indeed, whether or not our resources have already been breached. Such behavior is what drives the overwhelming dominance of GMail, which is itself a remarkable tool with which to learn about any person group corporation government on the planet. So in terms of utility its hard to argue that malware is a good to society. Write a malware that installs a patch to prevent a 0-day in known use by a state actor, then I will be a malware fanboy. Not until then.