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by kunglao 2339 days ago
Boeing's 737 MAX, despite heavy regulations, designed the software to depend on just one sensor. Didn't put any limit on how far down the plane could be pushed.

These are not any individual who would do deliberately. I bet these conversations go differently for ex need to certain kinds of debugging vs the improbability of actually pulling off an attack or prioritising a release dealing and making a design decision to implement a feature in a specific way which is intended to be updated later on opening up windows for attack. They would genuinely be improbable unless someone knows that they are there and committed enough to try.

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That seems to support the argument that security vulnerabilities in WhatsApp are most likely unintentional errors / incompetence. Unless you're suggesting the 737 MAX was intentionally sabotaged as well?
It supports the argument that code with major flaws (intentional or not) can make it into production with nobody noticing until consequences of that flaw make its existence clear.