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I think this is similar to looking at the budget of the US government and asking why they don't simply pay off all the potential criminals such that most crime
by tetrep 3y ago
I think this is similar to looking at the budget of the US government and asking why they don't simply pay off all the potential criminals such that most crime in the US is then mitigated.
- callalex 3y agoThat’s not equivalent at all. Paying off criminals creates an incentive for there to be more criminals. Paying more security researchers does not incentivize people writing buggy C code to write even buggier C code.
- cuu508 3y agoRaising compensation creates an incentive for there to be more bug hunters.
- flangola7 3y agoWhich is good
- KirillPanov 3y agoYour analogy is all messed up: paying off criminals doesn't make houses harder to break into.