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> But there's also a view that computer security research can't really hurt people, so there's no real reason for sort of ethical oversight machinery in the first place.

Worse: there's a view that people who get owned "deserved it." Our industry, and its academic attachments, have a really strange vindictive streak towards those who it should be looking out for. (Which is not to say that those people should be looking out for people swapping child porn--but what about the thousands and thousands of people who were not?)




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