re: #73 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Following that to its logical conclusion could lead his listeners rapidly to real existential panic. If any system that isn’t 100% flawless is therefore considered to be completely useless and broken, then there goes pretty much the entirety of human civilization. Permanently.

Rush did admit to the outside possibility that perhaps the data might have possibly been used to foil attacks we know nothing about, but that could be disregarded because one attack succeeded.