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by aritmo 1796 days ago
They are trying to claim that the service is so fully automated that it is the client that does the selection of the target. They claim that their system does not require any fine-tuning from their side, etc.

And that's totally bullshit.

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“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.” - Nathaniel Borenstein

Quoted at https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-favorite-programming-quot...

So the good old plausible deniability?