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spam the government with fabricated false positives

Right. So you say people should lie to their government???!

Martha Stewart thought that she was so smart that she could lie to the FBI when they came to talk to her. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that making false statements to government investigators is a federal crime. Martha wound up doing time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart#Sentence

I have to believe that the USA is not the only country where it is a crime to lie to investigators. You have a right to remain silent, not a right to lie.



Right, good point. I (embarrassingly) forgot that that was an option for dealing with invalid input.




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