| ▲ | victorbjorklund 4 days ago | |
Or for a more HN-example. If IT-security wasnt so valueable as an industry we would have solved IT-security long ago. | ||
| ▲ | lesuorac 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
Well, I think the general counter for a "cure-for-cancer" is the same as electric cars. The Big4 never wanted EVs with there being a documentary [1] on how much they hated them. However, a company that isn't the big-4 has no issue with creating one. Same with a cure-for-cancer. Sure, maybe Pfizer doesn't want to cannabalize their market but anybody that isn't Pfizer would love to. I don't think IT-security fits into the same model though. There's a lot of money in theft so you need a lot of money into anti-theft to counter-act it. Poverty imo fits the IT-security model more-so than cure-for-cancer. Each dollar you don't pay somebody in Madagascar to farm vanilla is a dollar you get to keep. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F | ||