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So I got a chance to watch this fully through, and fun fact, I was in Iraq as an Armored Cavalry officer when this technology was deployed with the embedded Seal team and special forces unit we supported. I'm very sorry this engineer clearly regrets being what he regards as tricked into developing the technology, but from my experiences, his guilt is misplaced. That technology saved a ton of lives, and allowed us to track and apprehend some really bad dudes. I was the operations center battle captain at the time, so I had a really high degree of knowledge of the information being used to decide on targeting, and it was 100% professional. Huge dossiers on mass pitt style murders, with video evidence, that was required before a target was actioned on, after months of planning. I have zero regrets; this developer should be very proud of his work. I acknowledge that in theory some bad actors can abuse technology for ill, and this current admin definitely disappoints me constantly. But I'm glad we had this tech when we needed it, so as many of my friends could come home as did. We had over a thousand casualties in Iraq over my two deployments, and my unit was 100% all about helping pursue stability and local governance, no nefarious story telling I ever saw. Was it worth all of those lives and money? I'd say no, but only because we as Americans and our system of government doesn't allow for long term thinking, planning, and persistence required to make generational change happen.