"(although the TLAs and politicians are too dim to understand their complicity in this)"
Oh they see it.
They just don't wish to acknowledge it.
"No man's ignorance is so great as a man whose livelihood depends on that ignorance" Upton Sinclair.
They believe that these weapons can be secured the way nuclear, chemical and biological weapons can be secured. If you steal one of those you'll leave traces (and probably kill or injure yourself in the process).
They are wrong.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
