Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:47:32PM +0000, areYouSureAboutThat via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 30 December 2022 at 20:38:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > 
> > Fast forward to today. LastPass, which is what he was relying on,
> > failed. Now all his hundreds of passwords are compromised.
> 
> After a decade as systems engineer, I changed career in 2014 after
> realising how foolish it was for all these companies (and gov
> agencies) wanting to take all their systems and data, and put them
> into the 'cloud'. I knew what was coming, didn't want to be the person
> they end up blaming, and decided I wanted no part of it.

Finally, someone else that sees through the king's invisible clothes!
In the old days you just had to somehow include the word "Java"
somewhere in your product and everyone will flock to buy it --
regardless of whether it actually solved anything.  These days, "Java"
has been replaced by "cloud".


> Now, these companies (and gov agencies) (and many more too come) pay
> the price for their foolishness.. and so will their customers. And
> this will continue, indefinately.
> 
> The only system that cannot be hacked, is the system that is turned
> off.

The only safe way to use the internet is not to use it. :-D


> Why would anyone would store their passwords in the cloud? What were
> they thinking!?!?

They weren't thinking. :-D


T

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