I see what you mean, but I don't think your analogy fits. People are only vulnerable if they choose to be and it's not the difference between knives and firearms, it's the difference between the powerful with firearms and everyone with firearms.
I think my Firesheep comparison was better. Firesheep made something possible easy and the result was not an outbreak of hijacked email and social media accounts although that certainly happened in cases where it wouldn't have otherwise. The result was education through surprise and an actual improvement in online security practices (defaulting to https).
If someone is going to have this level of information more transparency about what there is and what can be done with it is the lesser of two evils.
I think my Firesheep comparison was better. Firesheep made something possible easy and the result was not an outbreak of hijacked email and social media accounts although that certainly happened in cases where it wouldn't have otherwise. The result was education through surprise and an actual improvement in online security practices (defaulting to https).
If someone is going to have this level of information more transparency about what there is and what can be done with it is the lesser of two evils.