Oddbean new post about login | logout With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe? With 70 zero-days uncovered so far this year, 2023 is on track to set a new record. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/with-0-days-hitting-chrome-ios-and-dozens-more-this-month-is-no-software-safe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/060/150/927/375/615/original/863a40c7ff283939.jpg
@872ab8e1 Contrary to @210de87f 's law, the answer to the headline "Is no software safe?" is yes, no software is safe. Stored program computers have existed for more than 75 years, and the internet has existed for more than 43 years, yet for the most part we still do not know how to write reliable and secure software. There has been a large amount of research, and it is ongoing. Ther have been some positive results, but they have seen little adoption outside academia.
@872ab8e1 "With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?" Of course not. That's the nature of exploits. And there will always be some crazy condition that breaks things. It's impossible even to know them all. The closest thing any software gets to being safe is just if it's not used enough for hackers to bother with it. Someone still might hack it just for the sheer heck of it, so even that isn't a guarantee.
