I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
—Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign of Four” (1890)
First things first:
100% secure and reliable code is a unicorn.
I’ve been studying secure unicorns and their habits for a pretty long time. During that time, and as a conclusion of my extensive effort, I figured out that a big part of them are known as procrastinating unicorns whose famous motto is
I’ll think about security later.
In other words, achieving 100% secure code is wanted by everyone, but unfeasible. Every year thousands of vulnerabilities are discovered, ...
