Here's another attempt, a day and a half later. My thesis, if you will. Before we invented software, the world has gradually refined the ability to depend on l

Here's another attempt, a day and a half later. My thesis, if you will. Before we invented software, the world has gradually refined the ability to depend on lots of people for services. When we buy a shoe we rely on maybe 10,000 distinct groups of people. When we write software we bring the same social model of organization, but all the vulnerabilities and data breaches we keep having show that it doesn't work. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/features-are-faults-redux https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/features-are-faults-redux enumerates (in better words than mine) several examples where services made subtly different assumptions, and the disconnects make their combination insecure. Since we don't know how to combine services as reliably in software as in non-software, we need to be much more selective in the services we depend on. A computer or app just can't depend on 10,000 distinct groups of people with any hope of being secure.