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How much do you think companies[1][2] would collectively donate in order to try to avoid another Heartbleed?

[1] http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affec...

[2] https://gist.github.com/dberkholz/10169691



Rounding error in donations, but easily $X0k+ to purchase proactive mitigation. It's not like (without loss of generality) Yahoo is a stranger to paying for engineers, security technology, software licenses, or insurance policies.


Probably none, what with game theory and the free-rider problem.

Or, as it seems, about $2k.




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