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by colechristensen 108 days ago
Sure they do, you just have to think about it a different way.

It boils down to exception handling, you don't expect all of your bugs or security vulnerabilities to be known and write your code to be able to react to unplanned states without crashing. Bugs or security vulnerabilities can look a lot like a cosmic ray... a buffer overflow putting garbage in unexpected memory locations vs a cosmic ray putting garbage in unexpected memory locations... a lot of the mitigations are quite the same.