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Two sentences putting the responsible-disclosure argument as a practical problem rather than a moral one: if the COLDCARD bug had been disclosed privately first, how would anyone have told every owner to move funds immediately without setting off mass panic. Held because it states, more neatly than most of the week's exchanges, why the usual disclosure norm is hard to apply to a defect in already-shipped keys, and it sits alongside the sharper objections held at fractalencrypt-2085584132420043263 and the caution at milessuter-2084619892699897882. It is a rhetorical question and asserts no facts this record could check.

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