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There is some moral ambiguity here, SHOULD this sort of thing be done?

Can one in good conscience build and maintain a service that at it's core is about circumventing laws designed to save lives?

I am not condemning this and there are a lot of arguments you can make justifying it. But in all I would not choose to be involved it its production, just as I wouldn't work for a weapons manufacturer but I don't condemn my friends that do. (I can't say I don't get a little jealous when they talk about the drones they work on).



In the city I grew up in (Edmonton, Canada), the police used to tell the radio stations where the radar traps were. The goal of a radar trap is to get people to slow down.

That was in a gentler time; nowadays I recognize that radar traps are often used for revenue generation, so forces might be more reticent about revealing location. But 20 years ago even the police themselves would have had no issue with this, and might even have endorsed it.




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