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As an American, it's becoming harder for me to muster sympathy for an entity that actively discovers and exploits technological flaws to use against their adver
by cronix 5y ago
As an American, it's becoming harder for me to muster sympathy for an entity that actively discovers and exploits technological flaws to use against their adversaries while simultaneously purposefully not alerting the manufacturers in order to correct the flaws so they can continue to exploit them and then those flaws are subsequently discovered by others and used against them. Poor you.
- webmaven 5y ago> As an American, it's becoming harder for me to muster sympathy for an entity that actively discovers and exploits technological flaws to use against their adversaries while simultaneously purposefully not alerting the manufacturers in order to correct the flaws so they can continue to exploit them and then those flaws are subsequently discovered by others and used against them. It is worth distinguishing between the State Department and the NSA. The US government is hardly monolithic, even if we restrict our discussion to just the executive branch: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/05/the-nsa-is-trying-to-crack-tor-the-state-department-is-helping-pay-for-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/05...