Sentence examples for malicious uses from inspiring English sources

Despite the overall growth in bot activity, the firm said that many of the traditional malicious uses of the tools had become less common.

While Facebook might want to offer an open platform where it's not the opinion police or even the truth police, it's simultaneously earning money from some of the most malicious uses of free expression.

"What separates malicious use from legitimate use is the element of surprise.

In truth, it is possible to imagine a malicious use for virtually any biological research or production site.

Digital records have huge advantages, but they also present vulnerabilities: they can easily be overwritten, modified, destroyed or corrupted through careless or even malicious use.

Thousands of photographers have staged a mass protest against the "malicious" use of anti-terrorism laws to stop them taking pictures in public places.

The bill would also ban discrimination against homosexuals, pregnant women and the disabled and bar the malicious use of derogatory labels for blacks and other people of color.

This will be done to "prevent malicious use of the Twitter API and gain an understanding of what types of applications" using the service, Mr. Sippey wrote.

It had also had the unintended effect of encouraging ethical hackers to turn in others who planned to use its bugs for malicious use.

"There are crimes now taking place – the malicious use of intimate photographs for example – which we never would have imagined as an offence when I was a PC in the 80s.

Given synthetic biology's open-source ethic, critics cite the possibility of bioterror: the malicious use of DNA sequences posted on the Internet to engineer a new virus or more devastating biological weapons.