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Herb Lin

Senior research scholar for cyber policy at Stanford University

Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University.
Science & Tech

The Invisible Costs of Cyber Weapons

For kinetic weapons like tanks, production costs generally outweigh research and development. For cyber weapons, R&D is almost everything.