[staticassertion]

I think this is a weak framing. Lots of things are moral or immoral under specific circumstances. We should protect people from being murdered. I think murder is usually wrong. But we also likely agree that there are circumstances in which killing someone can be justified. If we can find context for taking a life, I'm quite sure we can find context for a DoS.

[ajam1507]

And what’s the context for using the internet traffic of your unsuspecting users to accomplish this?

[choo-t]

Using the internet trafic of the persons using your service to protect your anonymity and thus, protecting the service itself.

[ajam1507]

So you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?

[RobotToaster]

In most jurisdictions informing them would potentially make them legally liable. The fact they had no knowledge shields them from liability.

[ajam1507]

So their desire to not be used to commit a cyberattack doesn’t factor in? As long as they aren’t legally liable, it doesn’t matter?

Also a checkbox that says something like “I would like to help commit a crime using my internet traffic” would keep people from having their traffic used without consent.

[ryandrake]

Unfortunately “consent” is a difficult to understand concept for a lot of the web and Silicon Valley.

[staticassertion]

I don't have strong feelings about that one way or the other, honestly.