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> “Spyfone appears to be a magical combination of shady, irresponsible, and incompetent,” Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard.

Leave it to EFF to have the pithiest quote in the article. Is it possible that companies that are shady are more likely to be irresponsible in their security practices, because they're focused on immediate profit?

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Is it more likely that drug dealers that are shady are more likely to be irresponsible in their safety practices because they’re focused on immediate profit?

More likely than (drug dealer who are not shady)? Most likely yes.

That was the point. "Shady" and "irresponsible" pretty much go hand in hand.

Not necessarily. I'd expect the leader of an organized crime group to be very responsible but shady as hell.

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