<div dir="auto">Please do inquire about finding a champion (or starting one) that gives programmers some ethical protection from their employers over the asks (we) find objectionable <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's a significant issue and growing in relevance</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 4:42 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Cindy, John<br>
<br>
My response to an article on slashdot about hackers that removed the<br>
code that bricked trains.<br>
<br>
If there were social support, programmers could just refuse on ethical<br>
grounds to write the code that bricks a train or anything else.<br>
<br>
Long ago when I was faced with something similar, I was just fired.<br>
If there was an organization that made such behavior public in a way<br>
that seriously hurt the reputation of a company, they might think<br>
twice about such abuse.<br>
<br>
Would we have to start a new organization for programmers or is there<br>
an existing one that could take on this function? The EFF comes to<br>
mind, but open to other suggestions. I will ask the EFF if they would<br>
consider this.<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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