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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by MichaelBurge on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:00PM (#22939281)
Your argument is that withholding source code raises the cost of attack for the NSA. They'll have to buy expensive decompilers, hire competent assembly/C programmers, it'll take longer, etc.

Seems like it would similarly be unethical for a local bakery to give the NSA a discount on cheesecake.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by rcoveson on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:25PM (#22939497)
The NSA does a lot of things. A lot of them are good. Some of them are bad.

When the NSA asks you to help them do bad things, you say no. If you feel inspired to give them a cheesecake discount because of the good things they do, that is fine.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by LocalH on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:20AM (#22954448)
NSA buying a decompiler? When Ghidra exists?
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