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[–] 78 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Worse. It encourages selling them to the black market instead.

The illicit market for newly discovered security vulnerabilities generally pays pretty well, especially if you can demonstrate implementation. The only reason it's not a much bigger problem is that most security researchers have some moral compunctions and the professional desire to fix problems, not proliferate them.

If the companies basically tell the security researchers to pound sand, that encourages making a living elsewhere.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    This is why the ISS exists BTW. It was a jobs program for ex-soviet rocket scientists since by definition they're all weapons specialists who just happen to be launching satellites instead of nukes.

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