[Terr_]

Hold up, I think we have some sort of math denominator problem here.

You'd be rich if you got a dollar for every worldwide murder too, but that doesn't make murder a common workplace occurrence.

[SnowflakeOnIce]

Your general point here is reasonable. But to provide some domain knowledge context: secrets are leaked _very_ often!

In public data (source code on GitHub, etc.) you can expect a prevalence somewhere in the range of 0.5-2.5 live secrets per gigabyte of content. Now yes, there are more than 8 billion people on earth now and the murder prevalence is a lot higher than 0.5-2.5 per billion. But there are _far_ more bytes of public content than there are people on earth, so in absolute terms, there are far more leaked secrets than murders.

If you look at other types of data (like internal Git forges), the prevalence is much higher.

I think you could indeed retire with $1 per leaked secret!

[irishcoffee]

‘Tis a lot different mentality typing git commit/git push than it is to murder someone in cold blood, I guess?

[Terr_]

I was thinking more purely in terms of frequency. For a dollar a pop, you can be "rich" for worldwide events that are actually very rare things.

[irishcoffee]

Probably. Was just a silly turn of phrase.