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Ethics in Scientific Research
call -151 writes: "There is an interesting NYT article `When Science Inadvertently Aids an Enemy' discussing how some of the "encryption should be free for everyone" attitudes are changing with the WTC attacks. The article makes some interesting points and it is good to see discussions like these in more of the mainstream, even if the tone has definitely changed recently." Well, the questions are being asked again, but most of the researchers dealing with these issues have already answered the questions for themselves.
The only thing that has changed is that we now know that Hellman is a weak, over-emotional and unprincipled man.
These fucking arabs are not downloading PGP. They're using AOL and Hotmail when they're in the US, and riding around on donkeys when they're in Towelheadistan.
The government loves to use incidents like the WTC attack as an excuse to restrict freedom. The feds "need" to take away some of our rights in order that they can "fight terrorism" more easily. Who the fuck said fighting terrorism was supposed to be easy? We have rights that are (should be) inviolable, and if that makes the government's job harder, tough shit. Look for a new job.
If you have a problem with my views, REPLY, don't moderate!
That's why the abortion issue is such a big deal, because people equate morality with legality.
Not to get into the abortion issue, but many of us believe that human rights mean all humans, not just ones older than an arbitrary value.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Science doesn't help or harm anyone. Technology is what's important. The human application of the sciences we discover. Notice that "human" part in there?