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		hurin on Feb 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who I... It's a non-trivial task to design software that will deliberately fail and cannot be easily by-passed with a debugger.

AlyssaRowan on Feb 8, 2015 [–]

A massive understatement, for any software that is itself non-trivial.

And unfortunately, the harder someone tries to reach that goal, the more fragile their software becomes. A lose/lose situation.

It really is better to engineer software to work, not to fail.

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