Notice that nothing about that description has a single thing to do with weapons, or anything being
Just as a fancy car can be used to run someone over, or just to drive to work, or how a knife is essential to half your sandwich, but can also be used to stab or stick, practically everything in the world is dual-use, for good or for evil. Banning exploits because evil can be done with them is the same logic as banning lighters or rope.
So sure, an exploit could technically be included in a weapon. We could imagine this just as easily as someone writing with a pen and only seconds later deciding to jab it into skin. There's a big difference and we can see the intent in each. Popping a shell on a box isn't a weapon. Crashing a mail server isn't a weapon. Redirecting your calls via malformed SMS message isn't a weapon unless you use it as one. And most folks are not using it in any relation to one (unless you're the government as has been well documented via years worth of leaks).
Honor the expression of free speech in code: exploits are not weapons and are generally never a component of one. Stop saying the ugly and misrepresented word
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