Comment by latexr

> In principle, a complete product would ship with no defects. You could run it for 1000 years unpatched and it would be no less secure than the day it shipped.

Not necessarily. Something could be perfectly secure today and for the next 100 years but be trivial to crack in 1000 years because the landscape changed so much. Something that is inconceivable to crack by brute force now won’t be as compute power keeps rising.

It’s impossible to cover every base from the start and forever. Who would’ve thought that soundproof glass could be beat with a camera filming an object?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25999-caught-on-tape-...

> We were able to recover intelligible speech from maybe 15 feet away, from a bag of chips behind soundproof glass