Defenders pooling $100M into Linux bug hunting could beat individual attackers
kuza55 · x · 2026-11-07
Responding to the offense-defense economics question: with something like Linux, defenders contributing $100M collectively to finding bugs may outcompete any individual attacker — the outcome depends on correlation between attack tools. In general, AI makes bugs more expensive to exploit.
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