So if I lose my gun on the street and someone (18+) picks it up and shoots somebody, the blame belongs to me?

Not saying that the NSA is innocent as a child, but please don't put all on them.

If I would have a zero-day I wouldn't go out and encrypt people computers.

I'd eschew the gun metaphor because rifht to bear arms, etc.

But if you find a cooler with a vial of Ebola on the street, take it home instead of turning it in, then have it stolen and have that strain implicated in an outbreak?

Yeah... that's definitely at least partly on your hands.

The right to bear arms can also extend to cyber arms. And I mean it seriously.

I never thought about it like that before. Interesting.

The 'arms' in 'right to bear arms' is not clearly defined, and the founders would not have had any concept of software or weaponised software, but I can't think of an argument against people owning malicious software if the argument for owning firearms is also in play.

It's more like finding out you can shoot someone's door knob off with your gun, creating a documented process to make that easier, and hiding it from the public despite your pledge to disclose door knob vulnerabilities.

It shouldn't be a surprise when someone else starts shooting off doorknobs.

> So if I lose my gun on the street and someone (18+) picks it up and shoots somebody, the blame belongs to me?

I would say this is closer to having your guns stolen from your home while you're asleep and then used in a crime.