Reply to post: Re: One Network to Rule Them All

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

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Re: One Network to Rule Them All

What is a requirement and what is then implemented due to stupidity, ignorance or deliberately is another thing. This is where all the "Software Defined blah" falls down. Software defined is just that, code running on a hardware to emulate what a piece of real equipment used to do because:

It is cheaper to build (generic hardware with code on top)

It is easily upgraded (the endless quest to "improve stuff")

Bugs can be fixed more easily (there are usually more in the first place because it is software)

Bean counters and C-suite idiots had happy because it is cheaper and sound cool

All the leads to a gradual decrease in quality until you reach the point that a catastrophe happens. This is the same wherever you look with what is going on with self-driving cars being the next total clusterf*ck. The difference there is that so many people are already killed or seriously injured on the road due to what are classed as "accidents" (although very few are genuine accidents) and it is just accepted that currently they can get away with it. Big business had so much power now that the regulators are becoming impotent to there demands.

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