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My brakes don't have an about menu, they don't have a monitor, and they don't have a mouse. Everyone agrees they are safety critical.

My point was to demonstrate through a nonsensical example that different environments have different ambient expectations for reliability. If a problem in a low-reliability environment propagates to a high-reliability environment, the root cause is the failure of isolation, not the bug or exploit in the low-reliability environment.

Now, I would never actually ship an easter egg, but that's because I have no faith in the corporate blame game to correctly assign blame, not because I place the slightest stock in the idea that safety and security are a genuine reason why it shouldn't be done.

This is why we can't have nice things.



I would argue that curl is safety critical.

And it's a very nice thing, and we have it.


> I would argue that curl is safety critical.

O.O

That opinion scares me. Genuinely. Have you seen its protocol list grow in recent years? It has taken on a hundred thousand easter eggs worth of overhead to add 26 protocols, of which you probably use 2, but you consider it safety critical?




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