>There's a LOT of software that's in extremely widespread use that has
>the potential to contain bugs this severe due to very similar
>circumstances. It's not just open/free software either, you see a lot of similar bugs in commercial software; where you don't realise there aren't many devs working on stuff.
>Things like browsers and word processors--the stuff people use--is
>sexy. Things like crypto libraries and the other stuff "under the
>hood" that people don't directly use? Not a lot of attention there.
Sadly being sexy doesn't really help them, because most of the sexy-attention goes into new features and bling, and tends to leave the important core code looking like a pile of spaghetti left by ADHD monkeys as people poke it to put their new thing in.
In general software maintanence and checking is not interesting to most people.
S.
(who loves breaking software)