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Re:The ancient technology keeping space missions alive by arter4 on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:55PM (#37181222)
You can, but you shouldn't, because at some point you should patch the vulnerabilities you inevitably find on any non-trivial piece of code after a while.
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Re:The ancient technology keeping space missions alive by bombcar on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:29PM (#37181661)
Certain code can run with bugs forever, even vulnerabilities, because it will never interact with anything (see the famous "the missile" bug - a counter would overflow at some point, but by then the warhead would have detonated, so who cares?).
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