Why would they spend money on that? This severe vulnerability isn't going to hurt their bottom line, even if it "should".
(I'm not endorsing this perspective, to be clear, just recognizing that it exists.)
(I'm not endorsing this perspective, to be clear, just recognizing that it exists.)
When there's damnable, devastating security news for some publicly-traded company that makes it to the big news sources, the stock takes a 0-10% dive and then completely recovers within a couple weeks. Even if the company's response is completely bungled, mismanaged, or miscommunicated, the market doesn't understand security issues and it seems like the company just benefits from the news exposure.
I wish I kept notes on the last few times I've seen this happen so that I could cite examples.
If the customers cared, there would be significant drop in the price of the stock because a vulnerability like this would result in lower sales
What are you even talking about?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
On the other hand revealed preferences tell a completely different story about physical security.