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by arter4 1033 days ago
You can, but you shouldn't, because at some point you should patch the vulnerabilities you inevitably find on any non-trivial piece of code after a while.
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Certain code can run with bugs forever, even vulnerabilities, because it will never interact with anything (see the famous "the missile" bug - a counter would overflow at some point, but by then the warhead would have detonated, so who cares?).