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It's true the landscape changes rapidly, in terms of specific bugs found in specific pieces of code, but that is the same reason security never stagnates and wi
by nanodano 10y ago
It's true the landscape changes rapidly, in terms of specific bugs found in specific pieces of code, but that is the same reason security never stagnates and will always be needed.
- tptacek 10y agoHe's not addressing the question of whether security will always be needed. He's addressing the fact that the work product of a software developer working seriously in security will have a half-life of just a few years, while the work product of a generalist developer might live for decades. Dullien is a software developer; he's the author of BinDiff, the first popular binary diffing tool, and of a suite of other reversing tools like it (he's been at Google for several years now).