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by solardev 600 days ago
> Security holes are a marker of poor quality code and depending on the business sector that can break a business (healthcare, net security, VPN etc.). I don't have a clear case in mind, but it seems plausible.

Even then, I doubt it really matters. Lastpass is still around, and their whole business is security. RSA too. Microsoft is still around. Facebook had major breaches in the early days. Uber too. The credit monitoring bureaus get hacked and leak all your data, and that really happens is a tiny fine and you get like 3 months of free credit monitoring.

Shitty code is so common, and modern computers and networks are so complicated, that every big company gets hacked and zero-dayed and social engineered all the time now, and they pay some fine and send a few emails and then it's business as usual.

Everyone says they take security super seriously, but I can't think of a single company that really suffered from a breach...