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This is a scope problem. If thousands of people were constantly attacking your door's locks you better believe that locks would constantly be changing and that
by jimktrains2 7y ago
This is a scope problem. If thousands of people were constantly attacking your door's locks you better believe that locks would constantly be changing and that a house with older locks would need to have them upgraded.
Changes to physical items are costly and not affected by the same types of security scope that _any_ code connected to the internet is. The code in my decade old microwave has never needed to be upgraded and probably never will be upgraded, but it's also not under constant attack.
His Django app continued to run, he just couldn't make use of the most up-to-date features and security unless he upgraded.
- philwelch 7y agoI get the need for security updates. That’s why you use high level frameworks to write your application and update the rest of the stack that runs underneath. The issue is when parts of that stack are replaced with backwards-incompatible-but-functionally-equivalent parts, for reasons that have nothing to do with security.