I've been staring at this for ten minutes trying to figure out how these two things are related.pic.twitter.com/vgu5GtBhBx
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No. Issue is "if there's an exploit you can use, you'll lose it"
Sure, but the exploit is going to be made anyway. The compliance doesn't really seem relevant.
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