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If you give users a way to compromise their own security, scammers will find a way to make users compromise themselves.


Users always have a way to compromise their own security, and short of taking away their freedom completely (e.g. putting them in a mental hospital) that's not possible to fix.

Sacrificing human freedom in the name of security is a long, dark, and well-trodden path that I don't think we ought to venture down any further.


"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"




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