As long as this attitude persists IT will continue to be viewed by people outside of it with the same degree of respect as your average mercenary.
Consider that in a just world you'd be in jail. Does the money still look that good?
Consider that in a just world you'd be in jail. Does the money still look that good?
Unfortunately, it forgets how to do this if the country is Israel instead of the Philippines.
Is there some solution in that to making sure 100% of possible red team members are more aligned with the profit interests of the US' strategic private companies than the US strategic partners in running illegal conspiracies?
I'm baffled as to what utopia of a profession has global tool collaboration and consequences, but somehow manages to deal with 230 groups of nationalists, thousands of sects, and embargo's on any one group paying people across all of these to provide a regulatory framework for safe and human benefiting tools in their category with no edge cases. If such a regulatory framework existed maybe it would shut down these mobile phone companies over behavioral harm?
Would Apple being totally incompetent at security and fighting exploits from NK prison labor, eventually with about the same fail rate, be a better world?
Export control on thoughts didn't work, so total disarmament on thoughts won't work. Prioritize security, cut out some of the entertainment and useless features through regulation because brain candy always wins in an unregulated market.
So personal responsibility is where it starts and there isn't a fig leaf large enough that would allow you to pretend otherwise.
Let's be clear though, I'm not saying tech is bad. We'd all be doing manual labor on a a farm without it. I do think our demographic (including myself) has completely set aside any consideration for our impact in the name of optimization or a fat paycheck.