User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1221773-20101031021231/@comment-737801-20101031054828

Indeed what's that quote again. "Fool me one, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." The Council, even while denying the Reapers, still probably took things from the attack, including the terminal, and improved them, or guarded them better.