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by clouddrover 1639 days ago
Surely you can see that they're all bad actors, undermining the software and infrastructure that we all use, putting our systems and our data at risk through their grubby actions and even their grubby inaction, right?

I don't care which bunch of spies does it more. I don't want spies doing it at all.

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> and even their grubby inaction, right?

Yah, I guess by not searching for new exploits tonight for public disclosure, I'm putting the entire software world marginally more at risk by "grubby inaction."

> I don't care which bunch of spies does it more. I don't want spies doing it at all.

I care: some bad actors in my government vs. forcing an entire massive economy to participate in bad actions will have massively different magnitudes of effect.

There's always going to be bad actors, but preventing 15% of the world's population from being good actors surely is a pretty significant thing.