So, maybe providing code to a group called "the evad3rs" was a mistake. But I think the mistake was minimal. They would have had the code a week later anyway, and I don't think that's an argument against creating these types of tools. Even if we argue that academics shouldn't create tools like obfuscaters and such, that just means someone else will write them... and we won't have access to the source then.
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So, maybe providing code to a group called "the evad3rs" was a mistake. But I think the mistake was minimal. They would have had the code a week later anyway, and I don't think that's an argument against creating these types of tools. Even if we argue that academics shouldn't create tools like obfuscaters and such, that just means someone else will write them... and we won't have access to the source then.