All scientists filter what they see. It is part of living within the current scientific paradigm. Thomas S. Kuhn has written two very good books on the subject, one of them long enough ago to have become fairly standard knowledge.
Anyone that thinks scientists are unbiased hasn't followed scientific endeavors very closely.
The Niemoller quote is appropriate, but it misses one thing: I have not seen any acknowledgement that the government has proposed a policy of latitude regarding who they target and why. Further, if that proposal to acknowledge legitimate development is not hard-coded into the act, it is meaningless.
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All scientists filter what they see. It is part of living within the current scientific paradigm. Thomas S. Kuhn has written two very good books on the subject, one of them long enough ago to have become fairly standard knowledge.
Anyone that thinks scientists are unbiased hasn't followed scientific endeavors very closely.
The Niemoller quote is appropriate, but it misses one thing: I have not seen any acknowledgement that the government has proposed a policy of latitude regarding who they target and why. Further, if that proposal to acknowledge legitimate development is not hard-coded into the act, it is meaningless.
"The state of affairs today allows even relative novices to build highly destructive (malicious software),"
That is, "MicroSoft programs are designed and coded so poorly that relative novices can punch holes all through it."