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Right, and also note that plenty of "nefarious" software can be used for legitimate things.

Just think of malware analysis or feeding malware to the machine-learning monster.

In the end, it's just information and can be interpreted in a myriad of ways and for all kinds of purposes, including the good ol' simple satisfaction of intellectual curiosity. But many people in this thread seem to have a zero bit mind. By that I mean that they have a single bit dichotomy good(allow)/bad(ban) world that invariably has the value "bad(ban)".



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