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by saurik 1186 days ago
The issue I see with attempting to claim that these are merely differences of opinion is that it only takes a single bug in your code for someone well-versed in exploitation to not just steal all your data but often replace your entire program with their own evil one. I spend quite a lot of my outreach efforts essentially having to explain to the people who think software development is somehow unrelated to math that once you accept a bug into your codebase the effects tend to be as non-local as accepting "1+1=3" into a math proof, resulting in lost privacy, lost money, or even lost lives.