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If computer security is "80% solved" then "computer security researchers" also lose 80% of their "work".

There is an argument to be made that these researchers work for "developers", i.e., the people who create and perpetuate the stuff in the graphic, more than they work for "users", i.e., the people suffer as a result of its continued usage.

Here the security researcher does not tell users, most of whom do not read Twitter, to stop using software that utilises the stuff in the graphic. Instead he communicates with computer security researchers, developers and other Twitter users apparently hoping that developers will deprecate such usage. (But knowing this will never happen.)

Note this comment does not argue that this state of affairs is good or bad. Only a reader can make that so. The comment only makes some observations.



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