Dnia wtorek, 3 czerwca 2014 18:32:52 piszesz: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:06:43AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > Your proposal would cause 99% of software currently in use to be > > rejected > > That seems like a feature... > > (note that I don't think most software should be audited as security > critical. We can reduce the Trusted Computing Base and audit only those > bits.) > > > and make the development costs increase as astronomically as > > to be compared to medical research. > > I like to compare our current situation to the Steam Age. There was an > enormous amount of innovation in steam power, heating, etc in the 1800s. > There was a concomitant lack of standardized safety measures, and > occasionally boilers exploded taking entire apartment buildings with > them. > > Over time the rate of innovation decreased, standardization set in, > safety measures were instituted, and now we have boring steam radiators > in apartment buildings rather than exciting steam-powered Difference > Engines in our pockets.
I love that analoy. I was usually using "one of the reasons bridges are safe today is because we have safety standards and not everybody can build one", but yours is much better. -- Pozdr rysiek
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