is some terrorist in a cave able to detect use of 0day and re-weaponize it against others? seems far-fetched. and as long as governments aren't actively planting 0day, i'd assume innocent people were at risk the whole time anyway, but unaware.
I don't follow sorry, if less exploits will be produced then how will they have more available?
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I don’t get this line of thinking it’s as if the argument being made is the only market for 0 days is the government? That seems specious?
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No, an exploit costs a lot of money to produce, and government spending means that money is available. If that money dries up, then less exploits will be produced.
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assume 100 exploits/yr are being produced, of which 70 go to govt and 30 go to terrorist-in-a-cave. govt stops buying 0day, how does that affect the 30/yr that terrorist-in-a-cave makes? probably turns it into 60/yr.
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There are two problems with that, firstly we're not talking about minerals here - selling it to one party doesn't prevent another party from independently exploiting it. Secondly, as the price falls less are produced, you can't write an exploit for pennies, so people just don't.
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