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You absolutely should think about the ways the things you create can be used to harm other people, and take steps to mitigate that.

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I agree, the authors of cron and wget/curl should have taken steps to protect people from having their privacy invaded by others who use these tools.

I don't really understand why three separate people have decided to attack the exact same strawman of my argument. Read my response to the other person's?

Attack? I said that I agree.

In guessing this is sarcasm given these tools predate modern social networks and serve such a fundamental feature as "Save Page" within browsers already.

cron doesn't do that. As for curl/wget, both can be used to do all kinds of things other than just "Save Page". Consider combining cron and curl to upload a file to a server every hour, or to download and execute some sort of backdoor script. Whether they predate modern social networks or not is irrelevant.

I would prefer my knives have sharp points on them, despite the fact that they can be used to stab. I do not want general purpose tools "mitigated" because some people could use them to harm other people.

I want my tools to be sharp, pointy, and effective.

Blunt your own tools, but don't tell me what I can do with mine, please.

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