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Re:U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign gover... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:46PM (#25413656)
> Police are credited with making arrests, but are almost never credited with treating people with respect.

> By your logic, police should be encouraged to treat those they're supposed to protect and serve with disrespect and err on the side of locking people up, rather than trying to create a safer, more prosperous community.

No, by their argument, to the extent your first quoted sentence is true, police are (not “should be”) encouraged to treat those they're supposed to protect and serve with disrespect and err on the side of locking people up, rather than trying to create a safer, more prosperous community.

Which seems pretty accurate.

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Re:U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign gover... by nobody9999 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:57PM (#25413718)
>Which seems pretty accurate.

Exactly. Which is why it was a good analogy WRT the lack of security baked into the design of most software.

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