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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> the cause of some many of the security holes

As I keep saying, the security case is one in which
you would rather halt altogether than allow errors
to occur. But not everything warrants that approach.
Some things, like bombs and rockets, should just
keep going, because there's no good alternative.
In that case, detecting the error is probably not
as good as ignoring it.