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I have to say I'm surprise by the number of "I don't care" answers but ok. The implicit question here is "Instead of making crappy #android apps, how I can help these people with my skills?"
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First we have to learn real history and stop being etnocentrist
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What do you mean?
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NK uses the tools they can, all they want is to be considered as a country and sign the peace, with your tools you help any kind of person, you can not be a ethics God who decides who deserves it and who don't. Because ethics depend on a side, and trust me no one has the reason.
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Surveillance tools are not ethical for sure, whatever the regime or the story of the country.
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Frustrated, because I would have been working on something to help people but it would be used against the rights of the people I would be trying to help.
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Totally agree
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Lol, didn't see your reply before i wrote mine, but yea, you summarized it super well
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I don't give a damn. At least it's used by someone.
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Really? What about ethics?
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Ethics shouldn't be the pbm here, releasing anything public is for "the better and the worse" . Code shouldn't be politized and/or forbidding/making harder for some people to use it, They probably used Linux/windows, simple tools like ftp, do we add "bad ppl" DRMs in them ?
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This is inevitable. You don't think any other spy agency in the world uses open-source libs in their tools? One is not ethically responsible for ther creation
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Sure, but do we have ways to, at least, detect this kind of use?
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That would mean tracking (ironically!)
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I'd be not happy. Working on application takes a lot of time and resources and if any regime(especially regime like NK) would use it against the people I've made the application for, i would be angry af. But after all, what can you do at that situation? :(
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This is the implicit question of this poll: do you have a technical way to detect and avoid this kind of reuse?
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Well my only experience with this kind of detection has been pretty simple, i wrote code which checked the package name on android software and then the library was using same kind of method to check the origin source. It works but it has own flaws...
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If I care enough about it while developing I make sure to put a license on it which legally allows me to control what and what *not* the code is used in.
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Even you have put the correct license what can you do against a country like North Korea?
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Sue North Korea of course. If they don't pay we'll just send nukes :P
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All jokes aside though, a better option is to, with an open source project, add in a closed source library that can exploit the device and/or delete itself if needed.
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Did you just say "add backdoors and a killswitch" to FOSS projects to prevent them from being reused by N.K ? N.Korea has job offers for you
Literally you're all cute, bringing N.K back to the right path doesn't start with saboting the tools they use. Same applies
everywhere.
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