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rpgraham84[dead post] ◴[14 Oct 24 15:41 UTC] No.41838569[source]▶
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wepple ◴[14 Oct 24 17:02 UTC] No.41839462[source]▶
“Enable various forms of cybercrime” seems like a stretch.

If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and soldering irons.

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rpgraham84 ◴[14 Oct 24 19:17 UTC] No.41840886[source]▶
They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both could be true for any given X and Y.

For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of course.

For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal thing with a flipper I can find you at least 10 stories of someone doing something illegal with it. Same for metasploit, nmap is borderline, and soldering irons not so much.

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1. samatman ◴[15 Oct 24 01:37 UTC] No.41844075[source]▶
For every news story you can find of someone driving down the highway, I can find you at least 10 stories of someone crashing and burning in a multi-car pileup.