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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by timeinput on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:17PM (#27363655)
I feel there's probably a benefit to general purpose systems. Most non-general purpose machines I encounter are IoT or PLC devices and the S in those acronyms is for security. At least with a general purpose system I can implement hardening guidelines like DISA STIGs and automatically scan to be sure that they're enforced.

Maybe you get away from that with real software engineering, but that seems a bit like no-true Scotsman to me.

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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by R0b0t1 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:14AM (#27364760)
"Real" software engineering is just a way to justify adding artificial scarcity to the SWE labor pool.
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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by alert0 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:52AM (#27364973)
I think it is more so a way to recognize the actual scarcity in the SWE labor pool. I am sick of using apps implemented by the CEOs nephew who is learning to program. I am sick of developers who don't understand a memory corruption vuln. I am sick of people not managing, updating, or auditing dependencies. There is scarcity of talent and we need to stop letting people accumulate and then lose personal data.
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