[Dailydave] Sympathy for the Devil

[Michal Zalewski]

> it's merely the most recent I have seen which is written coherently
> enough to even justify a response.
>
> In a nutshell, some people are angry and jealous and afraid because
> some security researchers are making money from research when they
> should instead be wearing funny t-shirts, dressing like a zitty Neo
> and doing what they're damn well told by Large US Corporations (in a
> really cool, alternative way). [...]

So the article is good enough to be dignified with a response, but the
response itself doesn't need to rise to the same standard?;-)

> Luckily, society has provided us with a convenient, if fuzzy, tool to
> assess the ethical quality of actions when dispute arises. It's called
> 'the law', and I'd have thought the EFF might think more of it. ;)

Yup. The law should be the primary criteria for assessing the ethics
of our actions. In cases where the law is not restrictive enough to
promote ethical conduct, we clearly need to tighten the law.

/mz