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by Godelization 1595 days ago
It feels really terrible that the FBI is consuming vast amounts of our tax money to help idiotic American corporations from leaking secrets. If those companies are so lax in security, I say let them die. Or at least don't continue holding up their corpses indefinitely on my dime!
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I'm a little upset that in dying, they might take some innocent Americans with them. If the FBI were to start prosecuting companies for poor security, though...
The problem I'm concerned about is that by subsidizing security for some companies, and presumably mostly the big existing ones, we're effectively penalizing all of the competing companies who pay for their own security. If you iterate this long enough in the natural selection of the market, the FBI is effectively making it unprofitable to even try to be secure.
You’d be throwing the baby out with the bath water in what would turn out to be an incredibly short sighted endeavor.