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RE: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.)
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:03:53 -0700
Gun and cigarette manufacturers do not sell their products with malice.
Right. Even though there might be a market for cigarettes that kill people immediately (good for your boss) or guns that blow up when you press the trigger (offer them for sale secretly right outside prisons to the folks who just got out), nobody sells them. Gun manufacturers sell products that perform a morally-neutral function, killing a person. Cigarette manufacturers sell a product that provides people a benefit they want with a risk they're willing to take. Malicious code and exploit code, on the other hand, is more like a cigarette that kills you instantly or a gun that blows up when you squeeze the trigger. They're interesting to talk about and look at, but there is no moral application for them. That doesn't mean it's automatically immorral to create malicious code. But it does mean that your analogy is severely flawed. DS
Current thread:
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.), (continued)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Stanley G. Bubrouski (Sep 06)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) S (Sep 06)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Markus Kern (Sep 07)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) H D Moore (Sep 07)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Markus Kern (Sep 07)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Stanley G. Bubrouski (Sep 07)
- coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Meritt James (Sep 06)
- Re: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) sa7ori (Sep 06)
- Re: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Meritt James (Sep 07)
- RE: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) David Schwartz (Sep 07)
- Re: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Robert A. Seace (Sep 07)
- RE: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) David Schwartz (Sep 07)
- Re: coding (was: Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Robert A. Seace (Sep 07)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Markus Kern (Sep 06)
- Re: CodeGreen beta release (idq-patcher/antiCodeRed/etc.) Ron DuFresne (Sep 06)