[HN Gopher] Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
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       Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-08-25 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.google)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.google)
        
       | tofuahdude wrote:
       | The pessimist in me reads this as "we are continuing investment
       | in a promising line of business" couched as "we are doing good
       | for the world".
       | 
       | Am I too biased against Google's intentions now?
       | 
       | They say
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       | > We also pledged to provide $100 million to support third-party
       | foundations, like OpenSSF, that manage open source security
       | priorities and help fix vulnerabilities.
       | 
       | So really this is just, we are spending another 10B on this line
       | of business and we'll throw out a token 100 mil to the community.
        
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