I sometimes joke that although I started life in real-time safety critical systems (compiler design, DoD Ada) I quickly switched to cyber security once I realis

I sometimes joke that although I started life in real-time safety critical systems (compiler design, DoD Ada) I quickly switched to cyber security once I realised how hard that was and that most software was garbage and therefore improving the security of it would be like “shooting fish in a barrel”. Joking aside, complexity has increased, size has increased, the number of abstraction layers and the sophistication of those abstractions has increased, the degree of interconnectedness has increased. Not always with good reason. Now I tend to ask the question “How can we do this with less?”