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The regulation of toxic chemicals in the US is hamstrung by laws that enable companies to keep their use and their presence in any place secret. The selfish interest of those who keep trade secrets is rational but antisocial. In many cases the only harm it does is to hold back the general advance of technology. But sometimes it does really nasty things. For digital hardware and software, it
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