Just Who's Being Exploited?

Just Who's Being Exploited?
Jamie Reid, 2008-04-21

A cynic, it has been said, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Just Who's Being Exploited? 2008-04-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

Whatever you were smoking on yesterday's 4-20 apparently has not worn off yet. Sure, this sort of analysis carries a modicum of truth to it, but it's pretty much universal. Taking all the technology of this aside, what are you are saying is the following: the price being paid for labor does not matc...

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not really. 2008-04-23
J. Reid

That's a misleading interpretation that is diminishing to everyone involved.

A gap between the theoretical value and market price for 0-day means there is an opportunity for someone to do better. The gap is an inefficiency in the marketplace which is being exploited by buyers, but could just as...

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Just Who's Being Exploited? 2008-04-28
Anonymous

So we'll cede the cost to end users - many thousands in potential losses to hospitals, banks, etc. if they get hacked. The problem is that the hospital isn't the buyer of the exploit, they're the buyer of the tool/ware/etc. that patches or prevents the use of the exploit. It's the antivirus guy whos...

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There is already the solution 2008-05-08
Anonymous

I was attending the ITweb conference in South Africa. I attended also the keynote speech given by the Wabisabilabi folks. Seems to me that they are proposing exactly the model suggested by the article writer, it's also on their website: http://blog.wslabi.com/2007_07_08_archive.html...

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