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My gut says a lot of vulnerabilities disclosed like this had probably already been found by those people that won’t disclose them publicly. Programs that expose these vulnerabilities, funded by countries that can afford it, are probably the biggest stopgaps keeping it mostly in the realm of sketchy nation-state intelligence agency shenanigans rather than organized crime with ransomware-gang-level technical savvy and terrorist organizations. The frustrating thing is that there’s no way you can guarantee that some future problem would have been prevented by a program like this — it’s just good societal-level stewardship of our communications infrastructure. People that consider it reasonable for regular people to defend themselves against things like this without societal support and guidance are delusional. Beyond that, if we think we’re going to maintain dominance in the digital space, removing our collective investment in figuring out what that entails based on a dubious assumption that private industry will pick up the slack unprompted is as penny wise and pound foolish as you get.