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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:
"#Mythos discovers 27-year-old bug" is intentionally conflating length of existence of a bug with difficulty of finding it. There is no such correlation.
If software projects and companies performed regular, ongoing, in-depth code audits over and over and missed it, sure, then age would be meaningful, but that is simply not what organizations do.
But sure, it makes for great headlines.