I always see whenever security flaws are found in operating systems, games, software etc., a patch is released within a few days.
How is it possible that every security issue seems to be solvable once the issue is pointed out?
This doesn’t seem to be the case in, for example, the medical field where you may not have a solution to every medical problem even though you understand the problem quite well.
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The people who build these systems have more or less a full understanding of how every component of the system works. Everything that happens in the system is also usually deterministic, i.e., one thing predictably causes another thing. The human body is also much MUCH more complicated than 99% of computer systems and just much more complicated than the other 1%. These facts mean we can reliably 1. find issues 2. understand the issue and 3. find a solution without TOO much trouble. We have a lot more data at our fingertips and can usually test the solution thoroughly beforehand, given that the system isn’t a living thing.
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