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Re:Google, Yahoo, other Silicon Valley tech giants add econo... by devmonk on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @11:36AM (#1934232)
"Engineers are pretty nice people, and they assume the rest of the world is pretty nice like them," said McAfee. "But that's not the way most people are. And if you build (software) assuming that's the way people are, it will get heavily spammed. So one of the roles that economics plays at Yahoo and other tech companies is to be just a little more suspicious about human nature."

I thought that was what security was for, not economists.

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Re:Google, Yahoo, other Silicon Valley tech giants add econo... by davidw on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @11:56AM (#1934356)
I would think that economists would be good for the 'big picture' in judging what makes for effective deterrents and attractive targets, going by the incentives and disincentives.
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