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Why? The author of Metasploit was widely seen as a "bad guy" by nearly everyone until security researchers realized it was a net-positive to the security community.

If my system gets hit with a ransomware that's open source (and thereby likely very easy to create antivirus signatures for), I'd blame my system and the attacker, not the author.



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