alt Hacker NewsOkay, fair enough. But does that make sense as a default setting then?
I can see that some things might have a risk profile that might possibly make all this costs still worth it, but does it make sense to have these unicorn projects effectively blow up 20 years of ecosystem?
Shouldn't the extra cost of doing something out of the ordinary be carried by whoever does something out of the ordinary?
This feels like a bridge to be crossed when one gets there (if at all).
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FWIW, we actually do have a choice here. No one is forcing the industry at large to adopt an unpatched git 3.0 binary built from a source that makes that a default.
This should be a trivial overlay to carry around with effectively no downsides. So convincing whoever is steering that ship doesn't necessarily matter, as long as enough sane pragmatics agree on how defaults should actually be.
We are migrating all of PKI to the more costly and less efficient postquantum cryptography, even though nobody will reasonably use a quantum computer to snoop on your home IoT daily reports. I mean, I assume that what you are doing on your free time is not worth governmental attention.
The rationale of mass migration is that if you don't impose it, nobody migrates. This has notably been the case with famously insecure SSL parameters (512 bits RSA keys, PKCSv1.5...). And many companies may believe they are not critical, which might be true until it is not.
Case in point: you manufacture walkie talkies and suddenly your products have bombs inside. Or you maintain a compression library for free and suddenly you are shipping a backdoor to all Linux products.