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0 points48terry9d ago0 comments

If the maintainers burn out, nobody's going to be making your software secure.

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Then people will stop using that software.

This is so far outside of reality that I can't believe I'm even commenting on it.

If you believe people don't use software that is unmaintained and hilariously out of date I genuinely don't know what world you live in or how to deliver the bad news to you.

tptacek9d ago

Oh, I agree that today there's a general expectation that externalized security doesn't matter and someone will always come around to rescue you (and your unmaintained dependency) from disaster. I'm just saying: infinite free bugs is likely to disrupt that equilibrium.

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tptacek9d ago

Then people will stop using that software.

48terryOP9d ago

This is so far outside of reality that I can't believe I'm even commenting on it.

If you believe people don't use software that is unmaintained and hilariously out of date I genuinely don't know what world you live in or how to deliver the bad news to you.

tptacek9d ago

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