[insin]

This is damage-as-a-service, free of charge and as anonymous as your account, plus automatic distribution of the results to the victim and for all to see.

[maxerickson]

Right, who is swinging the hammer? Is it the user that asks for it to be swung or is it the thing that responds by swinging?

[jmye]

I dunno, I think a significant amount of fault lies with the developers who were either too stupid and too bad at software to create a tool that couldn’t create CSAM, or were too vile to enable the restriction.

I also think people who defend that kind of software are in dire need of significant introspection.

[insin]

Do we really need the bad analogy at all?

[maxerickson]

No.

But if someone uses one, it can make sense to illustrate that it doesn't apply as cleanly as they think.