Let me put it this way: if software is eating the world, the world is going to eat software too. Responsibilities have to balance.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Chris Mertens
Umm yes. Most of our tech & infrastructure has much longer lifespan. Is software runs infrastructure, we must match.https://twitter.com/camertens/status/863759365383368704 …
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People claim that it's stupid to argue software safety consider every other historical example. Vint Cerf makes same point, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Reminder for using car examples: Emission/safety standards: 1-made things better 2-helped US competitiveness 3-were resisted tooth and nail
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Treating software security as a public health type problem would immensely help the software industry, and open up so many vistas.
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Per Brad Smith, that would surely involve the NSA not stockpiling these weapons? https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/#sm.0000wdr9cwew4fpkps61za4d1wy52 …
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That sounds reasonable, and maybe NSA should do different things. But NSA "stockpile" is almost orthogonal to this problem.
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There is no "finite" supply of bugs--especially in Windows XP--and those will be found and weaponized regardless of NSA acts of any of them.
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Is it scandal that NSA's cache got stolen? Sure. But in this case, NSA warned companies (so opposite of stockpile) and there was a patch!
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So .. I agree NSA should do many things differently, but the stockpiling is a convenient scapegoat here. Windows XP has dozen critical bugs.
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Strikingly, Brad's post is all about NSA, and nothing about old MS software. I guess NSA can do release blaming MS? Not the way forward.
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