It's a clich that technology is value-neutral a clich employed in the service of a variety of causes. There's always some truth to the idea. Nuclear fission is just what it is, a piece of physics. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. But we're allowed to notice when particular technologies are especially dangerous.
Some technologies actively invite misuse.
For example, by default, scripts are given only 10 seconds to do whatever they do. Scripts shouldn't be allowed to override settings that control those same scripts. Scripts shouldn't be allowed to alter anything in the registry not without direct approval from a system administrator and especially not from inside an e-mail message. Look here , for example. But it chose to leave the door open.