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Yes. The way we develop software quite frankly scares the shit out of me on a daily basis.

• alistairSH 6y ago
  Even worse - if you consider yourself average, half the software out there was built on top of even weaker foundations. The web really is held together by duct tape and bubble gum.
• RGamma 6y ago
  Well it's mostly held together by trust and (in the commercial case) warranty. That said there's so many potential entry points for malicious actors it's not even funny anymore (esp. in desktop computing)... I try not to think about it too much and have faith in the powers that be
  • tremon 6y ago
    Can you point me to a documented instance where a warranty claim on a software product yielded a useful outcome for the claimant? The only one I can remember was against Microsoft for forcing an upgrade to Windows 10, which wasn't (IIRC) a warranty claim but a bait-and-switch issue.
    • RGamma 6y ago
      Now that you mention it, I can't remember anything off the top of my head, but it's gotta stand for something, right?
  • lazide 6y ago
    Every software package and SaaS provider always includes an explicit lack of warranty somewhere in their TOS - and if that means we’re just working off trust, we probably need to move to more ‘trust but verify’ instead of the current ‘fool me once, well just fool me as many times as you want because I won’t use something else anyway and you know it’ model we seem to be using now.