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It's not a complete fallacy. In events like this, after the news hits, there are a flurry of eyeballs looking, at least for a little while. The heartbleed bug got people to look at the openssl code and realize what a mess that code is. Inspectre and meltdown has led to the discovery of many more CPU vulnerabilities. After Chatgpt hit the market, there has been lots of new research on AI security, such as into prompt injection attacks.