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When the risk of an incident goes down, most likely the effort to prevent an incident also goes down, possibly causing total # of incidents to increase
by kirykl 7y ago
When the risk of an incident goes down, most likely the effort to prevent an incident also goes down, possibly causing total # of incidents to increase
- BurningFrog 7y ago> possibly It's a thinkable scenario. Has this ever happened though?
- TeMPOraL 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
- BurningFrog 7y agoThis absolutely happens - and I'd argue it's not a bad thing - but I'm not aware of a scenario where things become more dangerous because of it. Normally it eats up some percentage of the naively expected security gain, but my question is if it's ever > 100%?
- kirykl 7y agoOriginal claim didn't address severity, only # of incidents