Bake sales and lemonade stands are perfectly fine as long as people don't land on hospital urgency, due to careless work on preparing them with spoiled ingredients or lack of hygiene.

Lets strive for quality in software.

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Dylan16807 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Now do that again without careless work or spoiled ingredients. Do you still want them punished or facing so much regulation they can't exist? Because you'll definitely get that with software; even really good development will have flaws, and single flaws can lead to a thousand or million hacks.

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

All humans face scrutiny in their interactions with others.

Software only got this bad, because we educated users broken tools are acceptable and fixable with computer reboots and anti-virus.

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Dylan16807 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I dunno, people seem to accept most kinds of tool being fussy or flaky.

But the special thing about security flaws is that they turn a one in a billion error into a guaranteed attack. It's moderately hard to make something that doesn't feel buggy, but ridiculously hard to be secure. If you hold to the standards of a bake sale it's the former. If you want full security then nobody releases anything outside very strict contracts.

	▲	pjmlp 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thankfully industry is changing, - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32... - https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Artic... And I could keep listing several other world regions.