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> building software reliably has been figured out by software _engineers_ This is patently untrue when it comes to security. OpenBSD is the closest thing I'm a
by ForHackernews 6y ago
> building software reliably has been figured out by software _engineers_
This is patently untrue when it comes to security. OpenBSD is the closest thing I'm aware of to a "secure" widely used system, and I'm sure that OpenBSD machines are compromised every day.
The day that a network exploit is treated with the same seriousness as a commercial jetliner crash is the day I'll believe software security has grown up.
- doubleCs 6y agoWell when I said reliably I wasn't really thinking about something as difficult as security in a system as complex as an OS...