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by jmcgough 76 days ago
By this logic, wouldn't prediction markets be a national security threat?
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Yes, I suppose. Remember people are parts of various nations. Your "national security threat" might be a "national security opportunity" for someone else ;)
Leaking classified information is a crime, and I don't see why foreign adversaries can't monitor Polymarket to get advanced warning of military actions. A less corrupt US government would ban betting on matters involving national security.
> I don't see why foreign adversaries can't monitor Polymarket to get advanced warning of military actions.

They can and I'm sure they do. If you were about to be hit by the most powerful army in the world, wouldn't you want to have some advance warning?

Also I doubt any adversary worth their salt needs to monitor Polymarket.

I remember reading once that when the US was working on the SR-71 Blackbird out in the desert the Soviets could read its cross section by using satellites to pick up the thermal signature its presence on the ground left behind. State level actors aren't doing pedestrian stuff like watching pizza deliveries to guess what the Pentagon is up to.

Sure, but look at who controls the national security apparatus in the US at the moment.