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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by infogulch on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:16PM (#14344292)
> the point of the military isn't protection

I'd argue that it is, if indirectly.

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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by sillysaurus3 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:18PM (#14344310)
It's true. We're all safer thanks to the enormous success of our military. That's why it's valuable, just like the NSA.

So it leads to the same logical conclusions: If the point of the military is to apply force to an opponent, then the NSA has to have ways of applying force to a digital opponent. Disclosing vulnerabilities would be precisely the opposite of what they should do.

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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by ionised on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:35AM (#14350374)
> We're all safer thanks to the enormous success of our military

Examples from the last 50 years?

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