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Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by mcguire on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:49PM (#27753382)
Certification of people is cheaper than certification of systems built by random people. For fun: Try to get a commercial building built that doesn't have an architect and structural engineer (both of which are certified professionals) somewhere in its background.
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Re:Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kas... by rapind on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:34PM (#27763710)
This is a really good point. Because the stakes are so high it makes sense. No one would want to live in a building that's yolo designed. Certifying and insuring it after the fact though would be really hard because a lot of critical decisions are hidden away.

We accept that possibility in SaaS though... for now.

Most successful SaaS applications probably weigh in at 250k LOC or more (I know LOC isn't a great metric, but it serves as an idea of an application's complexity) and will use many libraries that themselves could be questionable. Seems like it would be pretty complicated to certify.

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