How about this:

Taxes, Incentives, and Economic Growth: Assessing the Impact of Pro-business Taxes on U.S. State Economies Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Kenneth J. Meier The Journal of Politics 2014 76:2, 364-379

> The empirical effect of business tax policy on economic development clearly diverges from economic theory. In a majority of cases, the impact of business taxation is negligible at best. Controlling for other factors, business-targeted tax cuts either have no effect or result in economic decline.

The full paper is available via Sci-Hub's latest incarnation.

Here's the paper without the NYT window dressing: http://engineering.nyu.edu/files/RTBF_Data_Study.pdf

It's just that new programs often have more bugs in them, and bugs can sometimes end opening up an exploit vector.

> It's just that new programs often have more bugs in them...

That sure is a broad brush that you are using.

I dunno. In general that's true.

No, you don't. Android ID is stored in Settings.Secure and can be read without any permission. READ_PHONE_STATE allows the app to read the IMEI/ESN/MEID of the device.