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Where do we draw the line? When millions die and billions of dollars in irrecoverable damage is done?

Who gets to decide whether the risk is acceptable? To whom do we turn to when it's found that their risk assessment was flawed, and we require compensation for their recklessness and negligence?



One could make the argument that given the depth of the NSA's capabilities they were in an unique position to know who, if anyone, also knew of the bug.


So we should just blindly trust an agency that has repeatedly been shown to have abused that very trust for self-serving and hypocritical ends?


All governments are hypocritical. We have nukes, but you can't have them; we can spy on you, but don't spy on us; etc. It's the nature of self-interest.


Reworded slightly: "Evil is evil. You can't change it. Get over it." I don't buy it.




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