halvarflake: broken incentives since 2000 have ground down 2-3 generations of security engineers

halvarflake · x · 2026-10-05

Security veteran Halvar Flake argues the accumulated security debt is fundamentally an incentives problem, saying broken incentives have ground down two to three generations of security engineers since 2000. David Manheim counters that while everything reduces to incentives and constraints, that is not always the most productive frame for solving specific problems.

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