It&#x27;s fun to do what the sheep or crowds are doing. That&#x27;s Windows, Mac, BSD, or UNIX at any given time. Throw in C&#x2F;C++ everywhere, browsers, Flash, HTTP as universal transport, language runtimes too bloated to understand, the Cloud... the more vulnerabilities and maintenance horrors, the more they&#x27;ll like you and the more fun you&#x27;ll have with them.<p>Our security needs to improve dramatically. Some ways are proven to work, some are proven not to. Pushing the second category is extremely fun, you might get famous in Silicon Valley companies, maybe invited to DEFCON, and everyone will make excuses for its problems later. Lots of buzzwords there, I agree: can&#x27;t even mentally track all of them. Then there&#x27;s a tinier group pushing methods that work because they&#x27;re necessary, even if not all fun. Staying with that group on principle if not profit.