The government spying on people doesn’t literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win.… - Paul Graham

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The government spying on people doesn’t literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win. And because this is so important to hackers, they’re especially sensitive to it. They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.