The spyware scandal in the news today is a chance to reiterate that human beings are incapable of producing defect-free software at any scale. In particular, there is no such thing as a secure online system or a secure mobile platform. This foundational issue won't go away.
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The one thing the software industry excels at is convincing people that computer bugs are a fact of life, and that the solution for them is even more complex software.
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externalization of costs and consequences is a core axiom of late stage capitalism
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