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bostikyesterday at 2:23 PM0 repliesview on HN

That is also why so much of the security[tm] software is so bad. Usability and fitness for purpose are not box-tickers. The industry term in play is "risk transfer".

Most security software does not do what it advertises, because it doesn't have to. Its primary function is for the those who bought the product, to be able to blame the vendor. "We paid vendor X a lot of money and transferred the risk to them, this cannot be our fault." Well, guess what? You may not be legally the one holding the bag, but as a business on the other end of the transaction you are still at fault. Those are your customers. You messed up.

As for vendor X? If the incident was big enough, they got free press coverage. The incentives in the industry truly are corrupt.

Disclosure: in the infosec sphere since the early 90's. And as it happens, I did a talk about this state of affairs earlier this week.