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If Government A and Government B are not equally "good" for the world, then the world is _not_ better off if everyone disclosed, since the main users of CNE are LE/IC.

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I'm not sure what some of these initialisms are but the whole idea behind disclosing is to take tools away from the bad guys (whoever you think they are) because presumably they'll have found some of them too.

CNE: the modern term of art for deploying exploits to accomplish real-world objectives ("computer network exploitation").

LE: law enforcement, a major buyer of CNE tooling.

IC: the intelligence community, the buyer of CNE tooling everyone thinks about first.

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