Treating the recruited agents as disposable has been the rule rather than the exception throughout the ages.

The average half-life of an clandestine agent is surprisingly low, and planned for accordingly.

Another way to look at it is to consider that it’s really embarassing to suffer an extremely high cost in lives lost, over a misconfigured Group Policy Object or Windows Registry Key or /etc/hosts file.

Something like that is akin to trusting cheap sheetrock/gypsum board and a couple of molly screws to support the weight of some priceless oil painting in a massive ornamental frame.

To see a priceless thing destroyed, but for want of a proper wall to mount it on is insult to injury.