The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

— Jamie Zawinski, The awful thing about getting it right the first time is that nobody realizes how hard it was (2014)

Source: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getting-it-right-the-first-time-is-that-nobody-realizes-how-hard-it-was/

From a 2014 blog post titled 'About Ubuntu Bug'.

Topics: software design, security