In all fairness, if someone throws a brick through your window you'll have police at the scene in relatively short order and most buildings don't need to worry about their doors being proofed against C4. On the other hand, if your software project gets hacked or DDOS'd you have no recourse unless they're incredulously sloppy or you're a mixture of wealthy and influential.
I do think software engineering as a profession should take notes from other engineering disciplines - but to compare them apples to apples is a touch unfair when our discipline is much newer, routinely attacked by bad actors (fer teh lulz, no less), and we're regularly updating our toolset to accommodate for changes in a much more rapidly-evolving landscape.
I do think software engineering as a profession should take notes from other engineering disciplines - but to compare them apples to apples is a touch unfair when our discipline is much newer, routinely attacked by bad actors (fer teh lulz, no less), and we're regularly updating our toolset to accommodate for changes in a much more rapidly-evolving landscape.
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