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Cobra is already out of the bag, we see corporations loosing billions over dumb mistakes. The contest showed what some skilled individuals or someone else could
by sitkack 2y ago
Cobra is already out of the bag, we see corporations loosing billions over dumb mistakes. The contest showed what some skilled individuals or someone else could eventually do. We can't hide behind access. The threats are too big.
- ben_w 2y agoThe cobra effect is another phrase for "perverse incentives", named after the time the British paid people to kill cobras without realising this meant they were paying people to breed cobras, and when they realised and stopped all the bread cobras were released into the wild leaving the area with more cobras than when they started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive I think this analogy would only fit if the hackers could somehow "breed" bugs, but as they don't work at the corporations making the buggy software I don't see how that would be possible — but then, I'm British by birth, so perhaps I have a blind spot for creating perverse incentives ;)