[There are facts that Dick misses, but he doesn't always know everything. He's not always in the loop-- it tracks with how Dick became more and more obsessed with finding and delivering his own form of vengeance, and how he tried to distance himself from Bruce in greater leagues toward the end of their 'partnership' as Batman and Robin.

Oracle was a complicated program that Dick didn't have the knowledge to explain completely, but he did his best sitting there with coffee in his hand.]

It's more than that. Barbara was afraid of it even when I begged her to use it last. It was the ultimate AI... spy. It could watch people, anyone, anywhere around the globe, listen in, know what they were doing. That type of power was dangerous, especially if somehow it got into the wrong hands.

[He paused, not knowing how much he should tell her, how much he should leave to his own knowledge. Dick erred on the side of caution and waited for anymore questions instead.]