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Isn't this what insurance is for?
by mmirate 9y ago
Isn't this what insurance is for?
- gnode 9y agoI'd agree, although maybe it's not that simple. For insurance to work, actuaries need to be able to determine the risk with reasonable accuracy. For car crashes and medical malpractice there's a lot of statistics, for newly discovered hardware vulnerabilities, less so.
- mmirate 9y agoFair enough. But the inherent complexity of a modern Intel hardware design surely puts at least a lower bound on the probability of bugs.
- ajdlinux 9y agoThe upper bound is just as important for working out an insurance premium...
- gnode 9y agoIf there were a lower bound, then there would be no point in insuring against it. If I knew I will incur at least $1B a year in legal losses, then I'd budget for it. Insurance is for covering the upper bound.