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Yes. It is important to have the serenity to accept the things you cannot change.
In the choice between
A. Burning out on a fool’s errand of attempting to fix/prevent all the security bugs.
B. Giving up as you accept that people write security security bugs and as an individual contributor you have insufficient power to stop all of them.
C. Accepting the existence of bugs all around you and focusing on changing the small bits of code that you can.
The latter is preferable.
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Yes. It is important to have the serenity to accept the things you cannot change.
In the choice between
A. Burning out on a fool’s errand of attempting to fix/prevent all the security bugs.
B. Giving up as you accept that people write security security bugs and as an individual contributor you have insufficient power to stop all of them.
C. Accepting the existence of bugs all around you and focusing on changing the small bits of code that you can.
The latter is preferable.