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A flaw with two faces: a bug in the product or a sprint to the enemy.

means A fault or imperfection in something, or the act of abandoning one side to join another.

from From Latin defectus, past participle of deficere, to fail or fall shortliterally to be undone from something.

Cold War senseSpies defecting made the word famously political.
Same rootShares DNA with deficient and deficit.
Verb vs nounDefect the flaw, deFECT the betrayal.
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