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Re:The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005) by josephg on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:23PM (#34524401)
Right; which is why all the things on that list are so important. We can’t seem to stop the endless flood of memory bugs in C/C++ code. Iirc 65% of security issues in chrome are due to memory corruption. But we can move to Rust and friends, where those bugs are a lot harder to write.

We’ll never get the bug count to 0. That isn’t the goal. The goal is to get the number of in-the-wild exploited vulnerabilities as low as possible. And there’s all sorts of ways to move the needle on that, which don’t require humans to suddenly become infallible.

Re:The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005) by zefix on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:04PM (#34524798)
Well said: The point is to make a proper effort to make the tools we use better.

Humans will always make errors. Let's stop denying that and start fixing the mess we are making.