Fixing programmers

Posted Mar 13, 2019 22:25 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Fixing programmers by rweikusat2
Parent article: Cook: security things in Linux v5.0

A moment's searching shows that bread slicing machines routinely come with protective guards, which are legally required in some countries.

Personally I'd support people being free to chop off their own body parts if they insist on using unsafe equipment or unsafe programming languages, except that some of the costs inevitably fall on the community at large. For amputations, it's health care costs. For software, it's a combination of things: a software ecosystem polluted with vulnerable software, and a network ecosystem polluted with compromised devices.

The gas story is a good one.