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Lawfare Archive: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyberweapons Arms Race

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The Trade-Off That Leaves Americans More Vulnerable

In order to preserve our espionage operations, our battlefield preparations in the digital realm, it necessitates these days this trade-off that basically entails leaving Americans more vulnerable. When you find a hole in the system and you decide that you're not going to get it fixed so that you might be able to exploit it one day for espionage or surveillance...you are leaving Americans more vulnerabilityThese days. No one is incentivized to seriously look at security. They are incentivized to get their product to market, to cut costs, to keep shipping. And in government, they're incentivized to spy on as many people as possible in the name of protecting Americans. We have this moral hazard in this trade

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