Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

• trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A tool is just that, a tool.

  Just because what you consider immoral or moral individuals use it doesn’t change the inherent nature of the tool to be used for specific circumstances. You’ll also notice I didn’t put any deterministic language when describing a penetration tester, because regardless of what side of the law they’re on they’re still cybersecurity professionals, it’s just that one side happens to pay better.

  A knife can be used to dissect as well as it can be used to mutilate or even vivisect. How a tool is used is determined by the user not the creator.

  Complaining that a few people use the item for nefarious purposes when the majority of problematic cases are issues at the developer level for the items being affected (i.e. vehicles) is extremely short sighted. Are you going to restrict all PC’s because they can be used for network intrusion?

  Are you going to limit access to the internet because the freely available information can teach anyone to create a dirty bomb?

  The premise of your outlook is inherently erroneous in my opinion.

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  • DrMango@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not talking about the uses for the tool, I’m talking about how you used the company’s own website as a point of reference for the tool’s capabilities. They have a profit motive so of course they’re not going to advertise unsavory uses for their product, just like your knife companies aren’t going to advertise that their product can be used for mutilation.

    But go on with your pedantry I guess.

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    • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The irony of you indicating me as the one being pedantic is seriously hilarious.

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