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> let the market do what she does best: work. Hm, I recall the Comodo hack. I think it Comodo was hacked twice or more times that year. It won many rewards an

• lloeki 10y ago
  Well, in a way, it did: people voted and said "we don't care la la la what did you just say?".
• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  The security market is working exactly as it was designed and evolved to. Far as when high-assurance started, the Black Forrest Group of execs of big companies convening on INFOSEC told one of INFOSEC founders they thought companies would refuse to sell them highly-assured software. The reason was they suspected they intended to make extra profit two ways: cutting QA for immediate profit; selling the fixes for later profit. This proved true with lock-in strategy combining for what was essentially checkmate to lots of companies. The other end are buyers. Most of them don't know what to expect for security or how to evaluate it. Most attempts to solve this failed. They've been conditioned to expect constant hacks, crashes, or data loss. So, they see Comodo etc get hacked and shrug. They'll usually stay if their end of whatever they bought works. The sector that will pay for highly reliable or secure software is probably under 1% of the market or projects. It's enough companies keep forming to do real thing but tiny, tiny few struggling to justify the extra costs or less features necessary for higher security.