Freakonomics Author, Stephen Dubner on Bug Bounties and Rat Farming

The guy usually makes sense, but he doesn't here.<p>You can't breed bugs in programs. You can't earn more money by creating more bugs in your browser. You simply don't have access.

That's a remarkably silly analogy. Researchers do not introduce vulnerabilities themselves, they are not "farming bugs" to game the system.

Either he's explained something really badly or someone has this exactly 180 degrees wrong.