Near-zero code costs won't fix security as institutions lag
jdpressman argues that with $50 of tokens he can rewrite Apache2 into formally verified Verus Rust, but cautions that most institutions won't migrate their software stacks even as code costs approach zero, recalling how Flash-era insecure defaults were eventually torn down.
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