Yeah the cockroach analogy is kinda bad. A more apt analogy would be that you can either let rodents help themselves to your food supplies on their own terms, o

Yeah the cockroach analogy is kinda bad. A more apt analogy would be that you can either let rodents help themselves to your food supplies on their own terms, or you can set up traps with a little bit of cheese on them. The traps with little bit of cheese on them here being offering hackers a viable low-stress way to earn income and the respect of society for doing ethical work, which they'll prefer over the high-risk, despite higher-gain, illegal activity they'd contemplate and perpetrate otherwise. Similar mechanics in many ecosystems. Carrot and stick work best together.