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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by ordinary on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:36PM (#7590190)
Why is the assumption "governments are rational" more reasonable than "governments are irrational"? Both seem equally possible to me, given the fact that we don't have the information to tell, either way.

In any case, that's a false dichotomy. Governments are not uniform entities, and there's no point talking about them as if they are. Governments, like people, do some rational and some irrational things.

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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by afarrell on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @12:36AM (#7590321)
Because it takes quite a lot of work and training for individual humans to act rational. Therefore, without other information, it is a better default assumption that any given human or system-of-humans is non-rational.
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