alt Hacker NewsComputer security has largely been built on the “not enough bears” theory.
Every target is worth attacking, but there are not enough bears to eat everybody. Sure, the bears are breeding, but exponential growth does not look threatening until it suddenly is.
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Terr_ • yesterday at 5:51 PM
> Sure, the bears are breeding
I don't think the "breeding rate" was the limiting factor.
It reminds me of a bit from the book Lying For Money [0], where the author notes that you can often find multiple layers of scams attached to other scams, just like meta-parasite in biology.
[0] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lying-for-Money/Dan-D...
Lotka-Volterra predator prey dynamics will emerge.