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> Put that way, having the edge default to letting out a few incurable criminals from time to time might be the fairer solution.

Blackstone's ratio[0]

He's a scumbag, but the folks that didn't secure that data were also complicit (although unintentionally). I know that the company went belly-up, but I'd suggest the company that wrote and sold the software also shares culpability, as they likely sold it as some kind of magic beans.

There's really no substitute for not collecting the information in the first place, but in this community, that's heresy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio




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