alt Hacker News> A better counter argument to "catch the pedo" is to bring up cases of creeps who were insiders - law officers
Certainly. You mean like that time an Israeli Cyber Directorate division chief fled Nevada for Israel after being investigated for soliciting a minor for sexual purposes?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-21/ty-article/.p...
Populations are large. You can draw a pattern in any population.
I think if I were saying this to convince people that hardware freedom is a good idea, they might think I care less about hardware freedom and more about memorising evil Israeli people to make sure I always have a negative example of an Israeli to mention in conversation.