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by brown9-2 4344 days ago
What security reasons? Firing the author didn't change what had already happened.
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kysol 4344 days ago
People were bat shit crazy in the middle of that Cold War. If someone randomly decided to turn off machines without notice, even if they said "whoops accident, my bad", their actions would have instantly thought of as sabotage.

I'm not agreeing with the outcome.

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