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0 pointsrightbyte2y ago0 comments

If your software need security maintainance it mostly has a failed architecture from the get go.

Like 9/10 apps need no internet connectivity at all, unless they are spyware of course, which most commercial apps are nowadays.

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johnny99k2y ago

"If your software need security maintainance it mostly has a failed architecture from the get go."

There are plenty of open source libraries, that many software developers used in their applications, that have had to have security updates. No software will be 100% secure.

"Like 9/10 apps need no internet connectivity at all"

This might have been true 10 years ago. Almost all apps people want need internet connectivity.

rightbyteOP2y ago

Software that does not interact with remote computers is 100% secure. You just got the risk when loading malicious save files or what ever, but the floppy disk kind of viruses is a whole other level of security risk and the user need to load the files. It doesn't just happen (I know some Windows computers could get infected by merely plugging in some USB stick, but you get my point).

The whole connectivity thing is the fundamental problem. Transferring files between devices have never been as easy as during the floppy disk days. Usability is not the driving factor behind forcing the internet into everything.

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