Right, security is definitely not a box you can check but American business have decided that if they run Qualys to get that PCI-DSS everything is good. Nobody is out there seriously talking about the fact that the Linux kernel is written in fucking C. Well it's 2% faster than if we wrote it in an actual language with, I don't know, bounds checking, and we'd rather use the 2% for dividends, thanks very much. We need some economic and regulatory incentives here so the public endpoints of your critical oil pipeline are running applications written in safer languages on seL4 platforms with hardware roots of trust, instead of god-damned DOS.

The software industry should be ten times bigger than it is, but the economic incentive has been to make it cost less, rather than to make it safer.