Sure, but competition is good for the user.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.