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Conversely, it's the scale, not magnitude. A single physical infrastructure failure can usually only harm a very limited number of people. A digital infrastructure breach can trivially harm millions.

Observing that each individual harm may not be worth the effort of suing over is evidence that the justice system is not effective at addressing harm in the aggregate, not evidence of lack of major harm.



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