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by lamontcg 3738 days ago
No, you're still making category errors and still completely blind to them.

You slide from race conditions and attaching debuggers, to a policy decision by a bureaucrat not to come up with the resources.

You fundamentally cannot be held responsible for the existence of debuggers in the universe. That is just silly.

The bureaucrat who said 'no' to the request from the state department can be held responsible for justifying that decision. With a $4T budget I can't believe that the US government couldn't find a few bucks under a cushion someplace to dig up another blackberry for the Secretary of State. In fact, its pretty much negligence that they couldn't.

And when you make pure policy decision about security you cannot abdicate responsibility over users deciding to work around those policy decisions when you make bad decision.