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Originally Posted by Wetzel
And I maintain that you have the right to discuss it. Only by understanding how they could be stolen can they be well protected. The same is with physical security. I find it an enjoyable excersise to talk with friends on how to break something (break in, wear out) and ways to counter. In the natural world, this is called evolution. One plant creates an inseticde to kill the bug eating it, the bug devlops an immunity or goes elsewhere.
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Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't make it ethical, or courteous. I have the right to attach together a string of expletives here, but that doesn't make it a good thing to do.
FIRST is doing something nice for us, and the first thing that happened is people started a discussion on what it would take to take advantage of the situation. It doesn't matter if anyone actually does it; just the fact that this discussion exists is probably already making FIRST think twice about doing this again.
Let's say a high school is going to have an assemly as a reward for all of the students trying so hard in school. They're going to have a big movie in the gym and everyone is going to get out of their afternoon classes to watch it. What a nice thing to do. Then, a big discussion starts up amongst the students about how they can use the movie sneak out of school. Guess what's going to happen? NO MOVIE, that's what. It doesn't matter if the talk was serious or not: the talk alone is enough to signal a threat. And you know what - a lot of the students that had nothing to do with the escape plan talk are going to be VERY angry at the people doing the talking because these few people ruined it for everyone else.
So yes, you have the RIGHT to discussion, but you DON'T have the right to the "movie" - that is a privilege that can be taken away if privileges are abused.
-Chris