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This has been an open secret for decades. Just a handful of major OS and browser vendors, constantly shipping patches to their systems and most software having

This has been an open secret for decades. Just a handful of major OS and browser vendors, constantly shipping patches to their systems and most software having such vast software supply chains that it's effectively impossible to audit anything, let alone truly certify anything as safe, and "security" software just expands the attack surface. Everyone in the industry knows this. Interesting to see the NYT just catching up.

newzisforsukas 2y ago
> Interesting to see the NYT just catching up. Maybe it has to do with some major incident that happened yesterday, and the fact they are a news company?
- lambdaone 2y ago
  It's the equivalent of not writing about Boeing until the day a 737 MAX crashes right in front of your newpaper offices.
  - newzisforsukas 2y ago
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  - lastofthemojito 2y ago
    It feels more like writing about Boeing and then writing about Boeing again after the crash, considering the Times has been writing about cyber security and American vulnerability for a while: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-usa.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.h... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/europe/nations-buying-as-hackers-sell-computer-flaws.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/europe/nations-buyi... etc
  - SoftTalker 2y ago
    Readers wouldn't have cared nearly as much. NYT: Boeing is run by bean-counters and isn't taking engineering seriously anymore. Boeing: That's not true. Our aircraft fly thousands of times a day, every day, and are very safe. Who would find that very interesting, absent any relevant, dramatic current events?
    - pixl97 2y ago
      Exactly, the problem with for profit media is it requires the attention of it's audience. Everyone bitches about regulation and taxes, for reasons real and imagined, but applying laws and rules to businesses before something happens is the point of them.
      - pintxo 2y ago
        How is that a problem of media? Isn’t it more of a problem of the population at large?
      - warkdarrior 2y ago
        Any media that does not have the attention of its audience is pretty pointless, no?
    - chipdart 2y ago
      > Readers wouldn't have cared nearly as much. This bears repeating. If you complain about a risk before a disaster structs, you're fearmongerng. If you complain about a risk after disaster structs, you're flogging a dead horse.
      - MiguelX413 2y ago
        *strikes
  - gist 2y ago
    > It's the equivalent of not writing about Boeing until the day a 737 MAX crashes right in front of your newpaper offices. In order to write about Boeing they'd have to have an angle and resources to go on a fishing hunt to create an interesting story for people to read and talk about.
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newzisforsukas 2y ago

> Interesting to see the NYT just catching up. Maybe it has to do with some major incident that happened yesterday, and the fact they are a news company?

lambdaone 2y ago
It's the equivalent of not writing about Boeing until the day a 737 MAX crashes right in front of your newpaper offices.
- newzisforsukas 2y ago
  [flagged]
- lastofthemojito 2y ago
  It feels more like writing about Boeing and then writing about Boeing again after the crash, considering the Times has been writing about cyber security and American vulnerability for a while: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-usa.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.h... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/europe/nations-buying-as-hackers-sell-computer-flaws.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/europe/nations-buyi... etc
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  Readers wouldn't have cared nearly as much. NYT: Boeing is run by bean-counters and isn't taking engineering seriously anymore. Boeing: That's not true. Our aircraft fly thousands of times a day, every day, and are very safe. Who would find that very interesting, absent any relevant, dramatic current events?
  - pixl97 2y ago
    Exactly, the problem with for profit media is it requires the attention of it's audience. Everyone bitches about regulation and taxes, for reasons real and imagined, but applying laws and rules to businesses before something happens is the point of them.
    - pintxo 2y ago
      How is that a problem of media? Isn’t it more of a problem of the population at large?
    - warkdarrior 2y ago
      Any media that does not have the attention of its audience is pretty pointless, no?
  - chipdart 2y ago
    > Readers wouldn't have cared nearly as much. This bears repeating. If you complain about a risk before a disaster structs, you're fearmongerng. If you complain about a risk after disaster structs, you're flogging a dead horse.
    - MiguelX413 2y ago
      *strikes
- gist 2y ago
  > It's the equivalent of not writing about Boeing until the day a 737 MAX crashes right in front of your newpaper offices. In order to write about Boeing they'd have to have an angle and resources to go on a fishing hunt to create an interesting story for people to read and talk about.

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