In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The early bird catches the worm.
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
In short, software is eating the world.
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.