• lysdexic@programming.devOP
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    2 months ago

    It doesn’t matter, why the present is garbage, it’s garbage and we should address that. Statements like this are the engineering equivalent of “it is what it is shrug emoji”.

    I don’t think your opinion is grounded on reality. The “it is what it is” actually reflects the facts that there is no way to fix the issue in backwards-compatible ways, and it’s unrealistic to believe that vulnerable frameworks/websites/webservices can be updated in a moment’s notice, or even at all. This fact is mentioned in the article. Those which can be updated already moved onto a proper authentication scheme. Those who didn’t have to continue to work after users upgrade their browser.

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      2 months ago

      A lot of the web used to run on flash. Then apple comes around and says “flash is terrible and insecure”. Within a number of years everything moved away from flash, so it’s definitely possible to force the web in new directions.