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poopingatwork • today at 10:09 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It's security research. You should want to know about all avenues of exploit regardless of intent. It's the only way to know risk.


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estearum • today at 10:50 AM

Do you apply this same logic to GoF research increasing contagiousness or lethality of viruses? Is there any limit to this argument, and if so how do we define it?

baxtr • today at 10:19 AM

Insurers would disagree. You don’t need to know mechanism to understand / model risk outcomes.