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Does it matter that the CIA and FBI are building these tools all the time? It takes a few characters to blow away a drive on the Linux command line, should those characters be illegal because they're potentially dangerous?

Banning software you don't like is a slippery slope, researchers publish proof of concepts far worse all the time.




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