OT: [oclug] Responsibility (was POTS -> SIP providers in Canada?)

[miden]

At band camp, one time, Rod Giffin said:

> Your question is too general.  You could ask the same thing of the
> machinist who makes a steak knife that ends up being used to stab someone.
>  I've thought of it once or twice, that a piece of software I was writing
> could be misused by a criminal, but the thing is that anything could be
> misused by a criminal.
> 
> If the primary purpose or use of a piece of software would be a criminal
> act, then I'd have a moral issue with it that might prevent me from
> writing it.  I think most virus programs fall into this category.  But if
> that use is a misuse of the software then it's simply unfortunate.

I think it's an impossible task and all I can do is repeat what I said 
to Kevin:

'I don't think there is a solution but one can always hope that with 
enough minds giving at least passing thought to the problem of malicious 
use something as yet unimagined might emerge.

Praying for magic, I suppose.'

-m