> But let's not pretend that software has the same difficulties as every other type of engineering. Most engineering doesn't face an epidemic of people actively

> But let's not pretend that software has the same difficulties as every other type of engineering. Most engineering doesn't face an epidemic of people actively trying to disable safety precautions to hurt people, and a lot of it reliably fails as soon as it does face enemy action. Punishing every engineer who ever gets outwitted (say, by a leaked NSA-developed vulnerability) is absurd. The issue isn't exactly how software fails, but that software today doesn't properly protect confidentiality and integrity of data, ensure services and data are available without providing oracles, authenticate and authorize correctly, log properly, etc. This is a well known methodology that is consistently ignored in preference to shipping products immediately. That's the issue. Unexpected things happen, accidentally or maliciously, but care should be taken - the proper kind of non-negligent care called due care. In general, software is not fit for the purpose it was created, appearing to work even though it really doesn't.