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> At current market rates every country in the world can afford CNE technology Slippery slopes don't justify anything. You might not care enough to make a diff
by bigyabai 1y ago
> At current market rates every country in the world can afford CNE technology
Slippery slopes don't justify anything. You might not care enough to make a difference, but many people do and your justification rings hollow to everyone that's potentially a victim. You wouldn't say this about nuclear proliferation, so why make a carveout for digital mercenary work? Because it's "harmless"?
I don't know what your goal is with this statement but it certainly doesn't make me feel any better. If you're this emotionally invested in the topic, it might be best for your own optics to not chime in.
- tptacek 1y agoI'm not justifying anything. I'm saying a very large number of people don't share the premise in the parent comment. It's one thing to disagree with a practice; it's another thing to suggest that disagreement with it is universal. It is not.
- fruitworks 1y agoThe difference is that it's completely plausible to protect against a cyberattack, but completely implausible to protect against a nuclear attack. The onus is on Apple and their userbase to protect their own computers, not the rest of society to patrol and regulate unstoppable "information crime" against them