Comment by mratsim
4 years ago
To provide some parallel on how the research was carried about:
I see it as similar to
- allowing recording of people without their consent (or warrant),
- experimenting on PTSD by inducing PTSD without people consent,
- or medical experimentation without the subject consent.
And the arguments about not having anyone know:
Try to introduce yourself in the White House and when you get caught tell them "I was just testing your security procedures".
submitting a patch for review to test the strength of the review process is not equivalent to inducing PTSD in people without consent or breaking in to the Whitehouse. You're being ridiculous. Linux runs many of the worlds financial, medical, etc etc... institutions and they have exposed how easy it is to introduce a backdoor.
If this was Facebook and not Linux everyone would look upon this very differently.
The fact that issues in Linux can kill people is exactly why they need leadership buy in first.
There are ways to test social vulnerabilities (pentesting) and they all involve asking for permission first.