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Personal responsibility is where this starts. Not with the US, not with Israel or the Philippines. It starts with us, the technical people that do these things.

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That makes no sense. A whole bunch of Americans won't do anything in this area because the US legal system is whimsical. But some nationalist professor was going to agree to make StuxNet, and maybe they were right, we certainly aren't going to all get to reach them to debate. So what is achieved?

Would Apple being totally incompetent at security and fighting exploits from NK prison labor, eventually with about the same fail rate, be a better world?

Export control on thoughts didn't work, so total disarmament on thoughts won't work. Prioritize security, cut out some of the entertainment and useless features through regulation because brain candy always wins in an unregulated market.

I'm not in the US. I don't work for Apple. And yet I can guarantee you that my work - assuming I'd be that capable in the first place - is used to reduce the security of various platforms through 'research' that leads to the existence of more zero days. You won't find me on anybody's red team.

So personal responsibility is where it starts and there isn't a fig leaf large enough that would allow you to pretend otherwise.

If these software updates are embargoed to some countries then your discovery is a tool of cyberwar under a fig leaf.

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