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Business-focused? How should that do anything about security? Do you want to charge an entry fee that evil people cannot afford? Or just label it "serious busin
by corty 5y ago
Business-focused? How should that do anything about security? Do you want to charge an entry fee that evil people cannot afford? Or just label it "serious business only"? Have things audited somehow? I don't think any of that would do any good.
- s5300 5y agoPresumably operating at a much lower level in general so attack vectors are greatly reduced.
- Jetrel 5y agoYeahhhh. Honestly, "business-focused" decisions like cost-center accounting, and various schemes to save money, are really how we got into this mess. A lot of our appalling lack of computer security basically comes from the equivalent of a hospital administration refusing to allow surgeons the time to wash their hands. As "reductio ad absurdum" of a metaphor as that seems, that was actually the huge culture battle that got fought when germ theory came out - tons of medical practices refused to waste time on such "silliness". Over time it became a cultural norm, and then became a protected practice through professional guilds, and through law, so that even if hospital administrators push for surgeons to hurry up and fit more patients into a day (and they do), their prerogative to take their time and do it right is institutionally protected. We don't have anything like that in programming.