This means that systems that are robust and secure at the time of deployment can become brittle and dangerous, even though the software doesn't change *at all*:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/24/automation-is-magic/
There's another analogy here, to utopianism. A "utopia" can't just be a place where everything works perfectly.
6/
Cory Doctorow
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