Well, in cybersecurity, it’s really the same problem we see in society at large: a lack of willingness to accept any consequences or do what’s actually necessary to maintain a secure environment.
Processors are vulnerable and the fix will cripple their power? Let’s just sort of half patch it and pretend it’s ok...want to spin up an app on AWS and don’t know anything about security? Don’t worry about it...chain all those JS libraries together and run them as root. What’s that even mean anyway? Of course I need my iPhone on the corporate network so I can surf donkey pr0n at work...why would anyone ever ask anything different? Computers with sensitive data NEED to be connected to the web. Otherwise, it would be too damn inconvenient! Security minded people are just a bunch of boomers who don’t understand how things are done now.
When CPUs ran at 10 or 20 megahertz it wasnt too easy to do other things than the tasks at hand.
Ruuning at 5 giga hertz and how many dozens of tasks at the same time, its so easy to hide bad code and backdoors galore.
Nobody really knows what their machine is doing anymore.