“Tearing apart the products of U.S. manufacturers and potentially putting backdoors in software distributed by unknowing developers all seems to be going a bit

“Tearing apart the products of U.S. manufacturers and potentially putting backdoors in software distributed by unknowing developers all seems to be going a bit beyond ‘targeting bad guys.’ It may be a means to an end, but it’s a hell of a means.” The trouble with the means justifying the ends, is that ends are fictions invented to enable the telling of stories. Outside the structures required for stories, there is only ever really the means.