Zeynep Tufekci: We are building skyscraper favelas in code -- in earthquake zones.
Wes Felter: We're getting into interest-only adjustable-rate subprime technical debt.
Zeynep Tufekci: The big problem we face isn't coordinated cyber-terrorism, it's that software sucks. Software sucks for many reasons, all of which go deep, are entangled, and expensive to fix. (Or, everything is broken, eventually). This is a major headache, and a real worry as software eats more and more of the world.
Robert Graham: SQLi, phishing, bad passwords, and lack of patches are the Four Horsemen of the cybersecurity apocalypse, not software quality.
Jeff Atwood: A ransomware culture ... does not feel very far off ...
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