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by lelanthran 1666 days ago
>>seemingly worked fine

>That’s just it though, it never was. That C/C++ code base is like a giant all-brick building on a fault line. It’s going to collapse eventually, and your users/the people inside will pay the price.

Sure, but everything is a trade-off[1]. In this particular case (and many others) no user appeared to pay any price, which tells me that the price is a spectrum ranging from 'Nothing' to 'FullyPwned' with graduations in between.

Presumably the project will decide on what trade-off they are willing to make.

[1] If I understand your comment correctly, you are saying that any C/C++ project has a 100% chance of a 'FullyPwned' outcome.