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Arbitrary bad practices as status quo without criticism, far from absolving more of the same, demand scrutiny.

Arbitrarily high levels of market penetration by sloppy vendors in high-stakes activities, far from being an argument for functioning markets, demand regulation.

Arbitrarily high profile failures of the previous two, far from indicating a tolerable norm, demand criminal prosecution.

It is recently that this seemingly ubiquitous vendor, with zero-day access to a critical kernel space that any red team adversary would kill for, said “lgtm shipit” instead of running a test suite with consequences and costs (depending on who you listen to) ranging from billions in lost treasure to loss of innocent life.

We know who fucked up, have an idea of how much corrupt-ass market failure crony capitalism could admit such a thing.

The only thing we don’t know is how much worse it would have to be before anyone involved suffers any consequences.



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