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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (24 children)

They take the man's entire life away because he revealed us terrible things our non-elected leaders are doing to us. Who was hurt by his actions?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Giving away methods for hacking/spying ensures your country is at a disadvantage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Disclosing found exploits allows developers to patch them out and improve security of everyone, which includes all the other alphabet boys and regular citizens.
There's no way to know that you're the only one who found any given exploit. Letting an exploit stay unpatched opens up an attack vector for everyone, not just you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Disclosing found exploits to the development team is far different than exposing those exploits to unfriendly countries or in this case those that would expose state secrets.

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