Originally Posted by juiceme well, leaks are immoral, heh Look at Snowden, and the bad rep given to Wikileaks lately... I hope your smiley meant you are joking, but the wording lets me doubt it. Don't confuse immoral with illegal. What Snowden did was in no way immoral. He exposed the wrongdoings of the NSA. The case with Wikileaks is similar. These people are heroes, they sacrifice, or at least risk, their personal freedom just for the chance to stop these wrongdoings. Its like saying a guy who exposes a group of human traffickers acted immorally because he exposed his working colleagues.
well, leaks are immoral, heh Look at Snowden, and the bad rep given to Wikileaks lately...
Morality, like truth, is not something universal, hanging in the air. It is subjective and depends on where you stand. For some, Snowden "exposed NSA's wrongdoings". For others, he "threatened national security". Regarding the topic of this thread, I know that some people believe that sacrificing anything and everything on the altar of their open-source god is never immoral but the truth is that the sources are Nokia's intellectual property and it is up to Nokia and Nokia alone to decide whatever they damn please with them, however inconvenient it might be for you. Making that decision for Nokia and leaking them would be not only illegal but also immoral.