[oscardssmith]

Is it? The fundamental reason the war on drugs failed is that drugs have relatively inelastic demand. Someone addicted to meth will find a way to get meth if it costs $10 or $500. Software exploits aren't like that at all. They are a tool used by gangs and governments that are only useful if they cost less than they're worth.

[missedthecue]

Software takes no less than a crappy laptop and a brain to create.

The Manhattan project consumed 10% of the total US energy output in the mid 1940s. And obviously uranium is hard to come across.

[stickfigure]

More notable is the fact that (like software transactions) drug transactions happen in private between consenting parties. The war on non-addictive drugs (say, psychedelics) failed too.