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Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by baddox on Thursday June 05, 2014 @04:04AM (#7850794)
> 1) You really shouldn't have an open conversation about knowledge that can easily kill people.

You mean like guns, toxins, and martial arts?

Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by thomasz on Thursday June 05, 2014 @06:21AM (#7851151)
sigh. This will get boring quite fast because a sizable portion of people participating in threads like that find the idea revolting that actions can have, you know, consequences, but what the heck...

If you would find a recipe for a toxin that is deadly, untraceable and can be mixed together from common household items by a talented 14 year old, it's probably a bad fucking idea to post that to 4chan. The same goes for hypothetical weapon blue prints or martial arts techniques that would allow to kill with a microscopic risk.

Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by zheshishei on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:53AM (#7852242)
>If you would find a recipe for a toxin that is deadly, untraceable and can be mixed together from common household items by a talented 14 year old, it's probably a bad fucking idea to post that to 4chan.

Does this count as a straw man argument? Wouldn't the actual scenario would be more like disseminating the information that a deadly toxin that is deadly, untraceable, and can be mixed together from common ingredients exists, not the recipe itself.

Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by Anderkent on Friday June 06, 2014 @07:30AM (#7857241)
Well, that depends on whether he dropped the actual exploit, or just talked about it. Which was the original question.
Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by baddox on Thursday June 05, 2014 @01:37PM (#7853084)
This is an extensively amended and much weaker claim than your first.
Re:Can I drop a pacemaker 0day? by ebrenes on Thursday June 05, 2014 @04:48AM (#7850922)
Don't forget vehicles, diseases, sudden deceleration, falls, drops and darwin award winning behaviour.

It's important that people be aware of the risks they face, and seeking to silence that conversation is not helpful. If anything, it will create an environment where any perpetators might go unpunished because it's just implausible they did what they did.