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In other words, it breaks as soon as you look at it funny, and the users get blamed.

• username223 11y ago
  No. Imagine, if you can, a world in which programs are things designed to help their authors/users, not adversaries to be exploited or defeated.
  • oblio 11y ago
    So Utopia? Also, see Neverland. We can imagine that world, but does it really help professionals in any way if they do imagine it?
    • thristian 11y ago
      Not at all. That world existed, for the brief interval between 'only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it' and 'everybody who can afford $50 a month has access to the Internet'. In that time, only a few people had access to computing and network resources, but they were all well-educated, reasonably well-paid and curious, with lots of motivation to help each other out and little motivation to undermine each other. It might have remained just a brief blip of history, except that so many technologies developed during that time, designed with the security assumptions of that time (i.e. practically none), became the fundamental underpinnings of our modern world, like MS-DOS and Unix.
      • _0ffh 11y ago
        This, so much this! It's amazing how fast you can go from "that guy with the curious hobby" to "some guy that naturally also owns and uses a computer, as everyone else does".
      • GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
        I didn't start using unix/vms systems until the early 90s in college, which was at least a couple years before your "$50/month access to the internet", if we count aol and compuserve, and by that time it was most certainly the case that the era of "[the] only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it" was long since passed.