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Reminds me of the book “this is how they tell me the world ends” - a history on cyber weapons. It’s written from the perspective of a journalist without a comp sci background but delves deeply into the topic of how cyber weapons are procured, priced, and sold to multiple agencies in the same government. It’s unfortunate these are used for exploits and not for reporting bugs or vulnerabilities. Stockpiling exploits only makes everyone less safe


I mean, I agree, but also it doesn't matter than I agree, because wanting everyone to be altruistic --- no, to share the same notions of "altruism" that we do, since quite a few hypercapable exploit developers don't agree that their home states shouldn't have access to whatever signals intelligence they want --- won't make it so.




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