Taking your argument to its logical conclusion, the homes of the people who write and maintain the FTP protocol should be shutdown as well; there are still plenty of anonymous FTP sites offering copyright material for download.
It's not the people who build the tools that are responsible for the way those tools are used, it's the people who use them who are responsible.
What if you are a clueless IT manager (we all know plenty of those!) ?
What do you do - sit in court and try to convince a jury of your peers that you are underqualified/under skilled for your current job?
The term hacker, elite hacker, and all the high-amusing numeric corruptions of such terms are bandied around pretty freely by people - how much, really, does a script kiddie know about his PC?
Maybe if Microsoft had opened up its source, as NASA seems to be saying it might allow for some code, may be the Thai Minister would now be happily cruising the streets in his BMW without a care in the world.
A lot of public money has gone into NASA over the years, so to some people's way of thinking, the people already own that source code. I'm suprising some National Security types aren't stamping all over this already though...
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My mobile phone has more processing power than was required to put people on the moon.
My wristwatch has a faster processor than my first PC had.
Is either of these a "computer" ?
Taking your argument to its logical conclusion, the homes of the people who write and maintain the FTP protocol should be shutdown as well; there are still plenty of anonymous FTP sites offering copyright material for download.
It's not the people who build the tools that are responsible for the way those tools are used, it's the people who use them who are responsible.
Thus speaks a UK dweller no doubt?
What if you are a clueless IT manager (we all know plenty of those!) ?
What do you do - sit in court and try to convince a jury of your peers that you are underqualified/under skilled for your current job?
The term hacker, elite hacker, and all the high-amusing numeric corruptions of such terms are bandied around pretty freely by people - how much, really, does a script kiddie know about his PC?
Maybe if Microsoft had opened up its source, as NASA seems to be saying it might allow for some code, may be the Thai Minister would now be happily cruising the streets in his BMW without a care in the world.
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A lot of public money has gone into NASA over the years, so to some people's way of thinking, the people already own that source code. I'm suprising some National Security types aren't stamping all over this already though