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> Diversity in [the featuresets of] software systems has led to reduced security citation needed. one anecdote that comes to mind, the gnu build system had an
by 1oooqooq 2y ago
> Diversity in [the featuresets of] software systems has led to reduced security
citation needed.
one anecdote that comes to mind, the gnu build system had an odd assortment of machines. when they were hacked (very targeted attack) they only noticed because the malware crashed on a R6000 mips cpu or something.
- SoftTalker 2y agoThat's also a good reason to make your code portable to other architectures, even if you don't intend to support them. Doing so can shake out bugs that would otherwise not be so apparent.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoI think anyone in the industry would agree that at some point, the increase in exposed surface area provided by the addition of features (and the complexity to support them) has indeed decreased security at least once in the history of software. My statement doesn't say that it always leads to reduced security. I would, however, posit that it's pretty darn close to "always."