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> The issues are fixed and life goes on.

Some bugs can't be fixed: once you've leaked millions of people's personal information, you can't really take it back. The "stakes of building it wrong" are very high in most software, because businesses are all too willing to hoover up all your info.

> The risk to those businesses of even rather bad bugs is generally low.

That is unfortunately true, but hopefully we'll eventually manage to hold businesses accountable for their screwups.




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