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I think this is a weak framing. Lots of things are moral or immoral under specific circumstances. We should protect people from being murdered. I think murder i
by staticassertion 6mo ago
I think this is a weak framing. Lots of things are moral or immoral under specific circumstances. We should protect people from being murdered. I think murder is usually wrong. But we also likely agree that there are circumstances in which killing someone can be justified. If we can find context for taking a life, I'm quite sure we can find context for a DoS.
- ajam1507 6mo agoAnd what’s the context for using the internet traffic of your unsuspecting users to accomplish this?
- choo-t 6mo agoUsing the internet trafic of the persons using your service to protect your anonymity and thus, protecting the service itself.
- ajam1507 6mo agoSo you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?
- RobotToaster 6mo agoIn most jurisdictions informing them would potentially make them legally liable. The fact they had no knowledge shields them from liability.
- ajam1507 6mo agoSo their desire to not be used to commit a cyberattack doesn’t factor in? As long as they aren’t legally liable, it doesn’t matter? Also a checkbox that says something like “I would like to help commit a crime using my internet traffic” would keep people from having their traffic used without consent.
- ryandrake 6mo agoUnfortunately “consent” is a difficult to understand concept for a lot of the web and Silicon Valley.
- staticassertion 6mo agoI don't have strong feelings about that one way or the other, honestly.