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by tachyons 722 days ago
TLDR:

USA should be allowed to use 0 days for their "counter" terrorism operations. This is interesting at the time of USA being complicit in a genocide against a community.

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In the paraphrasing of Chomsky, nationstate press conference lingo has subtle connotations. "Spreading democracy" means "whatever America wants", which means "whatever American businesses want." Gen. Smedley Butler probably would second it.

As an aside, I'm concurrently and in parallel concerned about the domestic front: cheap IoT, substitute control system products having backdoors, and supply chain vulnerabilities of otherwise reputable products being implanted in an NSA COTTONMOUTH, FIREWALK, or GODSURGE manner by other nation-states or ransomware actors.