This is the common excuse for adversarial hacking, and while it has some basis in fact it's also a justification for the endless security arms race and downward

This is the common excuse for adversarial hacking, and while it has some basis in fact it's also a justification for the endless security arms race and downward spiral into zero-trust. As the man said “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”