[peremptor]

I can only agree with this comment. I think you instantly run into issues with the points raised in the blogpost if you take a look at stuff like reverse engineering or obfuscation tools.

Say you have a decompiler like ghidra or a dissasembler like x64dbg even. These tools are heavily used by malicious actors AND the people working actively against them.

Would creation and updating of such tools be "ethically neutral" or would we ask the creators of such tools to be held "ethically accountable" for what bad actors do with them ?

That would lead to the age old bad situtation, that you have the bad guys with the tools and the good guys cant do anyting about this as this type of research would be considered ehtically questionable at best.