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by widget 5468 days ago
It's not necessarily a matter of them being cheap, good developers are hard to find, and the only people who can tell the difference are/were good developers themselves.

This is doubly true with security. There is no cosmetic or usability difference between a secure application and a nightmare that leads to thousands of leaked passwords. So companies that don't already have a good group of developers are screwed when hiring, and companies that don't consider their existing team's decision as the most important factor when hiring are asking for trouble.