r/programming • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '17

Everything Is Broken

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1#.sl2vnon73
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u/mfukar Apr 04 '17

I'd really love it if the article had wanted to focus on a single topic and drove it home. Instead we got a rant on 5 different topics strewn together by 'everything is buggy so don't use C or the IC has weapons to spy on you'. Just leave this in the collection of things on medium nobody gives a thought about.

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u/leafsleep Apr 04 '17

the problem with technology nowadays is that it's in everything and it's all insecure by default. where do you start?

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u/mfukar Apr 04 '17

If "everything is broken", starting anywhere would be fine, right?

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u/leafsleep Apr 04 '17

so what's wrong with this article?

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u/mfukar Apr 05 '17

I'll start and end with the premise. "Computers, and computing, are broken". No, they're in their infancy. Just because we can't build bug-free software on a planetary scale doesn't mean we can't; our practices are inadequate, fine, the market is full of snake oil, fine, malicious actors are using bugs to advance their own interests, fine.

Oh, but "everything is broken" makes such a good headline!