Scary post by Quinn Norton, on how precarious our online security is:

“When we tell you to apply updates we are not telling you to mend your ship. We are telling you to keep bailing before the water gets to your neck.”

As someone that works in a software business, this bit especially rang true:

“It’s hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works, how much the infrastructure of our lives is held together by the IT equivalent of baling wire.

Computers, and computing, are broken.”