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by alexgartrell 5204 days ago
I've read many of your comments on this thread, and I believe most of them to be unrealizable for non-trivial applications. Anyone can write a simple web-service, but how does one write a super low latency network file system in such a way that "security is obvious?"
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Your accusation is useless because the PL tools don't solve this problem either. Currently the only tools we have in networks are cryptographic and social, and those are not provably secure. And the point is that what is considered "non-trivial" nowadays is actually "monstrously huge and self-serving". A computer is just a tool but people want to build a whole world in there. And after that they become addicts, leading to absurd rationalisations about how we need more to cure us.