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skywhopper 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Copy Fail

When you can’t know the objective truth or when there isn’t one (as is the case in making decisions about security tradeoffs in software design), knowing the source of the argument is vital to interpreting its validity.

bawolff 5 months ago [–]

I disagree 100%. Software security tradeoffs are definitely the sort of thing where you can evaluate arguments on their merits.

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