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I choose to live in the real world, but strive for the ideal world. I would like to believe that software will improve over time, that slowly privilege escalation vulnerabilities will become rare as programmers learn to recognize the situations that create them.
Maybe I will die hoping for a computing paradise that will never arrive, but I delude myself into believing that there is some nobility in the struggle.
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