Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Walter Bright]

On 1/11/2023 5:43 AM, Don Allen wrote:
> True. But it doesn't work perfectly, which was my point. The jammed 737 rudder 
> actuator problem killed a lot of people and it took years for the NTSB and 
> Boeing to figure it out. Need I mention the DC-10 cargo door latches? You can 
> have ATC errors, pilot errors, etc. that get people killed. So flying is not a 
> zero-risk proposition, just like everything else we've been talking about, 
> including password managers.

The difference is, Boeing fixed that single point of failure problem as soon as 
they could. The rudder now has no known single point of failure problems.

The password manager remains a known, unfixed, single point of failure.