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>Programmer geniuses often can’t see the forest for the trees

Indeed, this is true. Likewise politicians often know nothing of how trees and forests actually work; and make absurd proposals which primarily serve their interests and pretend to care about a saving a few trees while endagering the entire forest.

Weakening everyone's security in order to weaken a small minority of criminals' security by default results in a net decrease in society's overall security