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These guys do security software. You don't find out if security software is badly broken until you're attacked.
by Animats 2y ago
These guys do security software.
You don't find out if security software is badly broken until you're attacked.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoUp to a point, sure. But it's definitely a field full of "unknown unknowns", and I don't envy them. That said, good architecture and principles are important, which is why for example *nix has a better security track record than older Windows versions.
- zug_zug 2y agoThat's a good point. I imagine this advice would be actively bad advice for building more complicated things (e.g. an IDE, perhaps a game, a turbotax alternative). Part of the skill of engineering is knowing when you need to do upfront engineering and when you can just throw some code at the wall.