[mikewarot]

Software is still at the 4 elements stage of learning (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water).

We have capability based security as a model for having computers that don't get taken out by any flaw anywhere, but... like doctors who refused to believe that washing hands helped save lives, most programmers don't believe in it, or have never heard of it.

Computers used to be leading edge because anyone could just get a machine and start hacking away at it, with physical hardware being the only limit. Now our operating environments are about as secure as a forest during high fire season... only little spark, and poof... your house is gone.

We're about 10 years out, not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of adoption of technology that works, instead of the old stuff extended way too far on a bad local maxima.