Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible?

dryriver writes: It seems like not a day goes by on Slashdot and elsewhere on the intertubes that you don't read a story headline reading "Company_Name Product_Name Has Critical Vulnerability That Allows Hackers To Description_Of_Bad_Things_Vulnerability_Allows_To_Happen." A lot of it is big brand products as well. How, in the 21st century, is this possible, and with such frequency? Is software running on electronic hardware invariably open to hacking if someone just tries long and hard enough? Or are the product manufacturers simply careless or cutting corners in their product designs? If you create something that communicates with other things electronically, is there no way at all to ensure that the device is practically unhackable?

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Re:And 90% of the 90% are the biggest boys

[Nutria]

Operating systems and programs may be wrote in inherently less secure languages such as C/C++, and it may even be for good reasons

Or bad reasons like Comp Sci elitist "I'm so smart, I'm not going to fuck up" snobbery.

Ada FTW!!!