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Stolen tools being sold on the blackmarket != tools being sold with government knowledge and permission.

Maybe there are actual examples, but this isn't one of them.

> Maybe there are actual examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

I believe ComputerGuru was thinking of cyber weapons as discussed in the article. There's very little need to think too hard for examples of the US selling conventional weapons to despotic regimes; and you certainly don't need to go back to the Iran Contra to find the US doing so.

In any case ComputerGuru is rightly distinguishing between stolen leaked weapons versus deliberately selling them. He's not saying that that it hasn't happened, merely that he chosen example was trash.

True and Regan should have spent time in prison for this! Disappointingly Bill Barr and Bush made all of this go away.

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