Comment by Veserv
13 hours ago
That is actually unfair. Most companys spend enormous amounts on security with vast armys of security employees. Not that it is effective, but it is not for lack of resources or trying.
I mean we are literally in a thread about how the 4 trillion dollar company, literally the 3rd most valuable company in the world, with a core competency in software has, yet again, released a core product riddled with security defects for the 50th year in a row.
Commercial IT security is a industry that is incapable to a fault and has, so far, faced basically zero consequences for it.
For every Apple, there are 100 mom-and-pop companies who have nothing.
Even more so in the future when a software company can be launched by a farm of AI Agents with a founder at helm with no clue about computing or security.
What's debateable is how many of those companies actually need irontight security, because they are never realistically going to be targets of criminals and/or they have nothing valuable to steal/corrupt in the first place (other than the owner's pride).
They have a website that can be used to host malware and/or seo link farms.
I still have nightmares about the contact form on my low-stakes personal website getting hijacked to use as a spam sender (because I used unsanitized input in mail headers).
Hey now, when Apple products get a serious Kernel level vulnerability that is able to be executed just by browsing a website. It's a "jailbreak" not an "exploit".
Exploits are BAD!
> Most companys spend enormous amounts on security with vast armys of security employees
This is true in America in many industries now, but most of the rest of the world (even the rest of the OECD) is still far behind.
Maybe they should've been as productive as the guys down in Santa Barbara.