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0 pointsgioele11y ago0 comments

> Relatedly, "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" is, and always has been, totally horsepuckey.

Consider that the contraction of the more complete saying "Many eyes make bugs shallower than they would be if there were only few eyes".

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But then there's the "Many eyes lead to a sense of complacency" issue -- like "No-one ever got fired for buying IBM|Microsoft|Blackberry"

wglb11y ago

Given that this is a 20 year old bug, that suggests that the number of eyes on this code were either zero or uninterested.

Also, the BEAST bug was identified 20 years ago and nothing was done until Thai and Juliano caused a mild panic.

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0 pointsgioele11y ago0 comments

> Relatedly, "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" is, and always has been, totally horsepuckey.

Consider that the contraction of the more complete saying "Many eyes make bugs shallower than they would be if there were only few eyes".

But then there's the "Many eyes lead to a sense of complacency" issue -- like "No-one ever got fired for buying IBM|Microsoft|Blackberry"

wglb11y ago

Given that this is a 20 year old bug, that suggests that the number of eyes on this code were either zero or uninterested.

Also, the BEAST bug was identified 20 years ago and nothing was done until Thai and Juliano caused a mild panic.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse