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This quote by John Young of Cryptome sums up the dark truth of the state of cybersecurity:

" Wonder how long it will take to reveal cybersecurity is a Ponzi racket.

Profits from commercial harvesting data of online users now exceeds the total funding of all the global spy agencies, with a healthy chunk of the steal bought by official spies and law enforcement which ignore the violation. Edu, orgs and NGOs part of the rotten racket."

Essentially, every major data breach is planned by the "good guys" having a stake in criminal ops.



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