Re:Serious Chrome zero-day
by sciurus on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:01AM
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"Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security."
Let's conservatively say Google pays 1,000 developers to work on Chrome, and on average those developers cost Google $300k each. That's $300 million a year just in payroll. Google has invested far more than a billion in Chrome by this point.
Re:Serious Chrome zero-day
by SamBam on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:05AM
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I'm amazed. Are there really, "conservatively," 1000 developers working on Chrome full-time, for years? That seems incredibly high to me, but maybe I just don't realize what it takes to build an app like Chrome.
Re:Serious Chrome zero-day
by krageon on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:56AM
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As an estimate I think we can safely say it's not conservative. Especially if this is actually developers (ie straight up coders) and not also all of their supporting personnel.
Let's conservatively say Google pays 1,000 developers to work on Chrome, and on average those developers cost Google $300k each. That's $300 million a year just in payroll. Google has invested far more than a billion in Chrome by this point.