50 million lines of code to open a connected garage door; overloaded messenger apps on mobile phones that run code for attackers; Applications are so service-intensive and complex that manufacturers advise their customers not to run them themselves and instead rely on the provider’s cloud. On the threshold of the AI era, the software industry is on a dangerous wrong path, denounces a Dutch programmer and IT entrepreneur.
Swiss computer pioneer and Turing Prize winner Niklaus Wirth, who died in early January, was a friend of efficiency. Thirty years ago, the professor at ETH Zurich warned in the essay “A Plea for Lean Software” about bloated programs that waste resources of several megabytes in size and endanger user security with overly complex code. Wirth provided proof in the form of the 200 kilobyte Oberon operating system. Today, Wirth’s warning is more relevant than ever and the attack surface is larger than ever, warns IT expert Bert Hubert.
Source: Krone
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