[SystemSafety] "Ripple20 vulnerabilities will haunt the IoT landscape for years to come"

[Olwen Morgan]

On 18/06/2020 10:01, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:

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> I suspect because most of the people I talk with are engineers ... 
> <snip> ... who don't really know much, if anything, about programming 
> language design.

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I'm dismayed to see even a hint of a suggestion that software engineers 
know aught but Jack Sh!t about anything.

The problems are not technical. We *already know how to prevent* these 
kinds of defects. The rot lies in the working culture (if one may call 
it that) of the great unwashed software engineer. They won't start doing 
any better until they start getting their arses sorely kicked for 
screwing things up. Strict product liability laws are needed to drag 
software engineering out of the ordure in which it habitually wallows.

On a bad day, I'd favour public disembowelments and drownings in 
cesspools - pour encourager les autres. ... Nevertheless, I am, 
honestly, trying to restrain further scatological invective and manifold 
violent urges,

Olwen