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Where do we draw the line? When millions die and billions of dollars in irrecoverable damage is done? Who gets to decide whether the risk is acceptable? To who
by ihsw 13y ago
Where do we draw the line? When millions die and billions of dollars in irrecoverable damage is done?
Who gets to decide whether the risk is acceptable? To whom do we turn to when it's found that their risk assessment was flawed, and we require compensation for their recklessness and negligence?
- onewaystreet 13y agoOne could make the argument that given the depth of the NSA's capabilities they were in an unique position to know who, if anyone, also knew of the bug.
- john_b 13y agoSo we should just blindly trust an agency that has repeatedly been shown to have abused that very trust for self-serving and hypocritical ends?
- onewaystreet 13y agoAll governments are hypocritical. We have nukes, but you can't have them; we can spy on you, but don't spy on us; etc. It's the nature of self-interest.
- nitrogen 13y agoReworded slightly: "Evil is evil. You can't change it. Get over it." I don't buy it.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]