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That may be but that doesn't change that fact that the underlying problem isn't cryptocurrency. Lashing out at other technologies because of lack of accountabil
by Dah00n 5y ago
That may be but that doesn't change that fact that the underlying problem isn't cryptocurrency. Lashing out at other technologies because of lack of accountability in software development won't solve anything. At best it will move it somewhere else but in the end the problem stil haven't been solved.
Besides, software could absolutely be made much safer without destroying the economy. We all know that the systems that get hit are often a mess a twelve year old could "hack" by using specific search engines or kiddy scripts. Laws punishing those that run software with known vulnerabilities that end up causing society problems like these ransomware attacks do should have been made decades ago.
- tptacek 5y agoThe whole point of the article is that you could have said the same thing about Viagra spam, but financial system interventions did shut that down. There is, again, no evidence that we know how to make commercially deployed software meaningfully safer at the scale we need to do it at to stop ransomware attacks from disrupting society.
- jude- 5y agoI kinda feel like this is something DARPA and the NSF should really be working on. Like, why can't we have an OS and programming environment where it's straightforward to prove basic end-to-end security properties before runtime, like "this data has a `sensitive` type, and thus cannot be written to any potentially-persistent I/O facility?". I'd love it if that was something that my command shell could statically verify for me before running a job, for example.