Regarding “security”, consider that at one point in history there were no known security exploits for <whatever piece of software>, and so simply asking “why no

Regarding “security”, consider that at one point in history there were no known security exploits for <whatever piece of software>, and so simply asking “why not” may have only elicited shrugs. After a few decades of having your software’s ass handed to it though, is it so unreasonable to stop asking “why not” and instead start asking “why the fuck should we?”