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It is an attempt at a legal disclaimer. It may not hold up in court.
It's the same as the age old "guns don't kill people" that seems to work fine for the weapons industry in the US.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/nyregion/sandy-hook-famil...
https://findbiometrics.com/nine-of-top-10-liveness-detection...
> Authors and contributing developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by the use of this program. Anything that can be created, will be created. However, that doesn't free you from all moral culpability. If you create something, make it freely accessible and easy to use, then I think you are partly responsible for its misuse. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have created…
> Authors and contributing developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by the use of this program. Anything that can be created, will be created. However, that doesn't free you from all moral culpability. If you create something, make it freely accessible and easy to use, then I think you are partly responsible for its misuse. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have created…
I do think disclaimers like this are a little juvenile (it reeks of a US-ian litigation mentality), but you can easily imagine why they put it there. Perhaps instead of the author being less naive, you need to be more empathetic.
> Authors and contributing developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by the use of this program. Anything that can be created, will be created. However, that doesn't free you from all moral culpability. If you create something, make it freely accessible and easy to use, then I think you are partly responsible for its misuse. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have created…
People should be happy, that there are still white-hats who're reporting exploits, even for no profit. I personally switched to gray-market, can't take the shit we get from companies, anymore.
This tool released publicly is only to bring an awareness to the topic. Everybody else who needed to exploit this, have these tools developed in private.
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I too would like to imagine whether or not I would release something like this in similar circumstances. Yet this question seems unfairly loaded. At the least - premature. Though we can easily imagine it, afaik there is no evidence of any actual abuse to date.
Tools like these will end up in the hands of those that are trying to harden an installation and in the hands of those that will end up using them to try to break into such installations. I've often wondered whether the net effect of the whole security research community is a net positive or a net negative and I honestly do not know the answer. So yes, it is a loaded question. But asking yourself if what you can do i…
I just hope the person offering AMA will not be daunted by a good but blunt question from a voice that carries weight around here.
Basically any pentesting software can be abused.
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Tools like these will end up in the hands of those that are trying to harden an installation and in the hands of those that will end up using them to try to break into such installations. I've often wondered whether the net effect of the whole security research community is a net positive or a net negative and I honestly do not know the answer. So yes, it is a loaded question. But asking yourself if what you can do i…
Thank you for a considered response. I share those feelings. I just hope the person offering AMA will not be daunted by a good but blunt question from a voice that carries weight around here.
Hence my question. Because I do feel that weight and it has caused me to carefully consider the abuse potential of the stuff that I've released since then and I've only released those things that I feel have none that I can (easily) discern.
Which requires more computation: a real-time deepfake or real-time deepfake detection? That will determine the future balance of power.