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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by profalseidol on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:13PM (#18397040)
> Having said that, I do tend to think “slap a market on it” can often lead to perverse outcome.

Yeah. Just look at where we are today. But calling it "perverse outcome" is sugar coating it.

If it wasn't for profit being the king of all (and being the current common sense). Then we would've put more time into making software more secure.

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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by icebraining on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:02AM (#18397704)
Software not made for profit is very often no more secure.

The problem is not profit, it's that these security issues don't really lower it enough. I've seen the profit motive working very well in a couple of companies when the threat of lowering them (in the form of large fines) appeared thanks to the GDPR.

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