This. We've known how to secure computers from this kind of nonsense for decades and there have been hundreds of massively expensive attacks over the years. Eve

This. We've known how to secure computers from this kind of nonsense for decades and there have been hundreds of massively expensive attacks over the years. Every time a new "biggest attack in history" happened, I thought "maybe now the cost of repair has finally exceeded the cost of killing C". Nope. I've been wrong every time. The psychological cost of abandoning backward compatibility is still considered unthinkably expensive, regardless of the economic cost of repair after an attack. The bad guys will continue to win until we change this mindset.