Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Timon Gehr]

On 1/12/23 00:28, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Well, what are you comparing it to? Reusing the same password and/or 
email for a lot of services probably carries an even higher risk.