There isn;t and will likely never be any strategy to prevent the conditions that the author discusses. Software is biological in nature, and to take it further,

There isn;t and will likely never be any strategy to prevent the conditions that the author discusses. Software is biological in nature, and to take it further, subject to the same laws as everything else, in particular entropy. There is no "Maxwell's Demon" approach to writing software. There are best practices and mitigation strategies, but those are incompatible with the business of writing software. Further, and I think this should be more and more clear to people, _any_ retained unencrypted data is _compromised_ data. Unfortunately, our society is on the way to being completely dependent upon centralized systems and institutions which are unaware of their limitations, and in fact we live in an age where centralization is considered a virtue, when it is instead a significant liability.