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June 16, 2012 09:00 pm PDT

Market for zero-day vulnerabilities incentivizes programmers to sabotage their own work

In this Forbes editorial, Bruce Schneier points out a really terrible second-order effect of the governments and companies who buy unpublished vulnerabilites from hackers and keep them secret so they can use them for espionage and sabotage. As Schneier points out, this doesn't just make us all less secure (EFF calls it "security for the [...]


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