[clug] [OT] 'Technical Debt' in Infrastructure, now entering mainstream media

[Kathy Reid]

>
> Imagine a world where, for instance, most of the O/S kernels were
> written by a second year undergrad from a non-English speaking
> country - doesn't even bear imagining. 
Linus Torvalds, Linux
> Or if the dominant file-server
> were written by a PhD student with a physics background who did
> it just to solve a short-term problem.
Tridge, Samba
> Or if most people were
> relying on a security protocol cobbled together by a pair of students
> from a backward place like Queensland... Dystopia!
This one eludes me? It's not Diffie-Helman or GPG. TLS?