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Let's look at a house analogy:

* If I leave the door unlocked is someone entering it and taking my property my fault? According to insurance companies it often is, but not the law. Who's side are you on?

* If I've locked the door, but there's a window that doesn't latch properly, is it my fault?

* If my door doesn't have a kick plate, is it my fault for not providing adequate security?

* if they break the windows, is it my fault for not having bars on my windows?

Making software secure is hard, but saying that the existence of any bug instantly means that the software manufacturer is culpable for how someone [ab?]uses those flaws is clearly nonsense. No one wants to deliver software with bugs in it, but NSO is clearly ok using those flaws to attack and kill reporters and HRAs.



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