Upgrades are not always improvements.
"For instance, a team may be tasked with improving memory management in the kernel, and as a result, will rewrite chunks of the source code, boosting the software's performance while introducing more pesky exploitable bugs along the way."
Fixed.
@Version 1.0
"We know that security is a huge issue, but we don't seem to care each time we write anything - our programming model and methods are fundamentally broken."
We seem to be in a poor position, agreed.
I sometimes wonder if a really secure system will appear, written from the ground up, and all the current competing systems will be confined, in what's left of their future, sitting offline running bespoke insecure software - i.e. xp, 7,8,10, linux, mac etc. The question is whether the various governments of the day would allow such a thing - after getting rid of the various backdoors in cpu and storage architecture, that is.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
