“On top of the effects of technology and culture there is a third fundamental cause of insecurity: the economic incentives of the computer business. Internet businesses, in particular, value growth above almost everything else, and time spent trying to write secure code is time not spent adding customers. ‘Ship it on Tuesday, fix the security problems next week—maybe’ is the attitude, according to Ross Anderson, another computer-security expert at the University of Cambridge.”
Source: Why everything is hackable: Computer security is broken from top to bottom | The Economist
