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stavros • today at 8:30 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Even if it's not the GP, if there's profit to be made, somebody will do it. I was reminded of the power of economic motives the other day, when it turned out someone bought an entire trustworthy reseller just so they could compromise the Ledger supply chain by including a tiny eSIM module that OCRed the screen and transmitted the seed.

Incentives are crazy powerful.


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matkoniecz • today at 10:19 AM

> if there's profit to be made, somebody will do it

Not always! With sufficiently powerful barriers it can be blocked at least in part.

Shaming awful people is one of available tools.

Or at least not praising them for making small profit at huge costs to others.

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