I think this is a weak framing. Lots of things are moral or immoral under specific circumstances. We should protect people from being murdered. I think murder is usually wrong. But we also likely agree that there are circumstances in which killing someone can be justified. If we can find context for taking a life, I'm quite sure we can find context for a DoS.

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ajam1507 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And what’s the context for using the internet traffic of your unsuspecting users to accomplish this?

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choo-t 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Using the internet trafic of the persons using your service to protect your anonymity and thus, protecting the service itself.

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ajam1507 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?

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RobotToaster 2 hours ago | parent [-]

In most jurisdictions informing them would potentially make them legally liable. The fact they had no knowledge shields them from liability.

	▲	ajam1507 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So their desire to not be used to commit a cyberattack doesn’t factor in? As long as they aren’t legally liable, it doesn’t matter? Also a checkbox that says something like “I would like to help commit a crime using my internet traffic” would keep people from having their traffic used without consent.

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staticassertion 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't have strong feelings about that one way or the other, honestly.