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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Humans built and programmed computer systems, whereas we did not build the human body. If we had the ability to just rewrite behaviour/default functioning in the human brain we’d likely achieve the same in the medical field.
Some computer problems aren’t necessarily patched, but disabled. For example, flaws in Intel processors over the last few years have led to minor and in specific use cases, noticeable performance decreases because whatever feature causing the security issue had to be disabled.
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