"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

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"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

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"Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless."

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