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by ajam1507 83 days ago
So you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?
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In most jurisdictions informing them would potentially make them legally liable. The fact they had no knowledge shields them from liability.
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.

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