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by metta2uall 754 days ago
To get serious about cybersecurity governments need to start imposing hefty fines for failing security reviews, otherwise companies choose to maximise profit. This includes fining software vendors for 0-days, depending on their size and the severity of the 0-day. For example, a critical 0-day in a popular Microsoft/Google/Apple product should cost them e.g. $100 million. This will actually get them to allocate significant engineering time to preventing 0-days instead of working on the latest gimmicky features...