> 0. ("The primordial sin") The
> vulnerable product is released ...
> ...
> Vendors must work much harder
> to avoid releasing ... code ...

Absolutely correct. Vendors who release code are the core problem.

Vendors should not release code, they should release its source.

Where this is not done, vendors should at least release a detailed code map and 
important security-related excerpts of the source as part of a forensic analysis 
report about the code that enables a skilled person to more easily read through the 
code with a hex editor and disassembler in a reasonable amount of time and decide 
whether to use the vendor's product as-is or whether to modify it to take out parts 
that expose unwarranted features and unwanted risk.

We simply must stop executing other people's OTS code.

Regards,

Jason

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