Does it matter if software is unreliable and insecure?

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Yes it does.

In a world where the next big war is almost certain to open with a massive cyberattack? Yes, it matters.

It matters who whom? To the military, definitely. To the typical business? I doubt it. In the event of a big war most people will only be worried about critical systems, and even the people running those do not believe it is worth bothering about.

I think its worth bothering at the social level, but in practice people are bothered. I am the author, and I would love to do everything right. My point (see the last section) is whether trying to persuade the rest of the world to care is Quixotic.

Well, it matters for anything that is infrastructure, which has a wider range than we usually think - commercial freezers, for instance, or water treatment plants.

More than that, though, it matters for the economy, and the economy matters if the war lasts very long. And whether the war lasts long or not, it matters for the individual business.

I think it's just that nobody considers the risk as being very high. Personally, I'd consider it to be at least 30% chance over the next five years, but that's just me.

That does not really address my question. To whom does it matter? Who takes responsibility. Does the owner of the water treatment plant or a commercial freeze feel its their responsibility to prepare for war?

Everyone's problem is no one's problem.

set a spending cap on your API.

Have you posted this in the wrong discussion?

> "So with all this, where are the waves of compromised sites?"

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

That proves my point. it says "1,049 pwned website". That is a tiny fraction of vulnerable websites.

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