You are correct. Having worked in information technology, I realized pretty quickly that management is always reactive and never proactive.

In the words of pentester Jason E. Street in his defcon talk “kill everyone, destroy everything, cause total financial ruin” - “the best way to get management excited about a disaster plan is to burn down the building across the street.”

If a government got hacked big time because of a back door, they would probably become a lot less interested.

I finally just blew up my gmail the other week and not a moment to soon as it seems. Much happier with my new swiss provider.

It’s when people try to have LLM’s generate code and then try to assemble the pieces produced into semi-functional, usually really bad, software I think.