Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things

…so they said I should vet who could use it.

Yeah, nah.

It’s not the job of software engineers to maintain the delusions of random people.

Quote:

Whenever you create a new technology – especially in the social space – the first question you have to ask yourself is WW4D: what would 4chan do?

And if you can’t answer that and then come up with solid mitigations for each of the answers, you need to go back to the drawing board.

https://mastodon.social/@tess/111928831055391019

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