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As a software engineer who pays more attention on security than average, I often feel my work didn't get recognized. For example, if I successfully prevented a supply chain attack, nobody would say thanks to me for a thing that didn't happen, even when they see a competitor product gets attacked. Similarly, most C/C++ programmers do not really care about integer overflow. But I know we are no longer in the world that computer viruses are everywhere(though ransomware are still common). The, who made it better? The people who are not satisfied with stuff that "just works".


I think you misunderstand what I mean by "just works". It means it doesn't have bugs in it. That includes security holes.




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