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Doctors don't get blamed when someone they treat subsequently gets shot. Civil engineers don't get blamed when a saboteur blows up the bridge they designed.

• dcow 5y ago
  Have you ever driven under the base of a large bridge (you can’t it’s restricted)? I’m sure you’ve seen the road spikes and the anti car bomb barricades put around high profile buildings… when something is valuable and a possible target of attack you protect it and make it less vulnerable.
• ajkjk 5y ago
  This is not a good analogy. Civil engineers would be blamed if a force they were supposed to compensate for, like a storm, destroys a bridge they designed.
  • Spivak 5y ago
    The grey area is if attackers built a weather machine to create exactly the perfect storm tailored to stress a small design defect until it fails. Even more so when the probability of such a storm occurring naturally is 0.
    • Gwarzo 5y ago
      That's a great analogy.
    • mastax 5y ago
      The thing is, our current understanding is that such a weather machine doesn't exist so it isn't necessary to design around it. In the cyber security world such machines absolutely do exist so we should be expected to design around them.