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Apparently, there ARE some things $100M in cash can't buy, like security reviewers, security teams, security coders.. hmm, actually, $100M in cash could buy all
by jamiesonbecker 13y ago
Apparently, there ARE some things $100M in cash can't buy, like security reviewers, security teams, security coders.. hmm, actually, $100M in cash could buy all those things. Guess it's a question of priorities, and security isn't one of them.
- gress 13y agoYou mean $100B in cash. Yes - it's obvious that there are bad practices at work here - in particular no strict static analysis. I agree there's little excuse for not adding machine processes that could have helped. But adding human processes costs time and agility, and as you point out, money cannot replace these.
- ballard 13y agoBritish million = American billion = 10^9 MM is used to denote an American million = 10^6
- omh 13y agoAre you sure? The old 'British Billion' was 10^12, but even that is rarely used any more. I've never seen an 'M' suffix used to mean anything other than 10^6.
- rdl 13y agoM is widely used as "thousand" in specialized contexts like "CPM" and "RPM" within the advertising/accounting space.
- Toucan 13y agoI don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages. 10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion. 10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now referred to as a trillion. Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ explains it all quite nicely.
- daeken 13y agoEven if they spent every last cent of that money on security, they would still have bugs. You never get rid of all of them. People that talk about security spending miss the inherent imbalance in security: a defender has to find every bug; an attacker only has to find one.