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Re:How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spe... by Momquist on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:14PM (#16088262)
> e.g. I'm pretty sure no white-hat security researcher has checked for security problems in the cheap wifi light switches I bought on Amazon.

But isn't this also applicable to the other side? As in, black hats have less incentives to research vulnerabilities in less popular products (security through minority). I'm not certain how this balances out.

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Re:How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spe... by sgc on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:36PM (#16088356)
Cheap products can be quite popular. It's probably fine until that cheap item you bought goes viral on facebook, or there is a single upstream vendor that is hugely successful. No idea either, only statistics would tell.
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