If a coyote comes out of the woods and drags one of your kids away by the head, you don't try and analyse the motivations of the coyote. You don't try and rehabilitate the coyote. You don't blame the child for being dragged away, and you don't try and design a world where coyotes are not a threat.

You do 2 things:

1) You teach your children that coyotes exist and that they are dangerous.

2) You put a bullet in every coyote that comes on your property.

Software will never be perfect. People will always seek to take advantage of flaws. All we can do it teach vigiliance and eliminate threats (including hackers) as we detect them.

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