And yet the meat-and-potatoes of guys like Eliot and his adversaries are things like heartbleed or goto fail. (Missing bounds check, improper braces + copy-past

And yet the meat-and-potatoes of guys like Eliot and his adversaries are things like heartbleed or goto fail. (Missing bounds check, improper braces + copy-paste). The bugs you speak of are IMO mostly unexploitable, don't make the news, and are generally about as existentially terrifying as the possibility of being hit by lightning. If I was searching for some deeper meaning in bugs, I'd rather think about how the most elaborate and secure of digital structures are still vulnerable to a moment of distraction or laziness in just one person, and how software seems to be resistant to the sorts of engineering best-practices that make aerospace as safe and consistent as it is.