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There's a whole world of problems like that though, that don't involve questionable ethical practices (depending on your own personal beliefs).

Math is the language of reality, it's applicable to anything so I don't know why getting involved with these sorts of projects over just about anything else is so alluring from a technical standpoint.

You never know, upon entering the inner sanctum, you might be the one set to work on a Microsoft Excel macro.

There's plenty of awesome projects out there you can work on that don't involve selling your soul to the devil.

It doesn't matter how cool a project is. If it's wrong, you have an ethical responsibility to not get involved with it.

Yeah, fascinating, stimulating, also potentially very selfish.

> Am I the only thinking that working on a project like this would be awesome ?

I would hope so, but you likely are not.

The usual reasons are the mortgage and childrens education funds. Thank you for not smoking.

The defence (what a misnomer that is) industry has lots of very clever people working for it as well.