1/ Let's say we added up all the money spent globally on patch management — even for just the major software manufactures.
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2/ I feel like if just a small portion of that money were instead spent on higher-quality software, it'd be FAR more economically efficient.
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: or slower-but-safer languages/runtimes. We pay the price eventually, might as well take the hit up front.
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exactly. I wonder how much more we’re paying ‘later’ than we otherwise might.
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: it's the sort of thing that in other industries is sorted out by regulation and industry standards...yet here we are writing C++
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software regulation, it may come to that. did we every get regulation in any market w/o a severe set of catastrophes first?
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yeah, that’s what I thought. He were go IoT / SCADA.
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Replying to @jeremiahg
: the traditional "we'll all just get along and manage this with smart humans" won't scale. Patch velocity demands automation.
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did u see Dan Geers trade-off w/ respect to embedded systems? support your software w/ updates or you must release the source.
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: yeah, code-in-escrow has to be part of it. Companies fail/dissapear all the time.
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companies will resist that, and rightly so. Seems no one can keep anything digital safe from leaks. would have to find a way.
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