If you work in research like that - how can you sleep at night?
This is a real question - I haven't been able to ask someone directly involved in unmasking users like that.
This is a real question - I haven't been able to ask someone directly involved in unmasking users like that.
So, in short, the people at the SEI sleep as well as the people at Raytheon or Lockheed Martin that build the drones, or the folks at Alcatel-Lucent who helped the NSA way back, or maybe even the guys way back at Los Alamos. It's not like some grad students or CS professor got strong-armed into doing this. It's literally their job to do this kind of work for the DoD and other government offices. While the ethics of this line of work are certainly up for debate, they knew exactly what they were getting into.
When I studied it, it basically boiled down to the arguments about patents. We never discussed IBM's involvement with the Gestapo, or the Apartheid South Africa Government.