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The assumption that somebody would have found the vulnerability if it existed is framed incorrectly. The better assumption would be that if there were a sufficiently easy to find vulnerability it would have been found.

or motivated. Nobody (but an attacker!) is, let's say, financially motivated to scrub through lots of code to find an error somewhere. (This is a gold-mining type process: endless days of no result, until one day ka-ching!)

Not nobody, but it's a real wakeup call: not enough active reviewers. I remarked yesterday that me being surprised at Evan being surprised that I am reviewing Zeus, was wishful thinking on my part that there's actually someone else looking, let alone spend time. Delusional opti.

This is why in legacy payments, card terminals, processors etcetera have mandatory audit. Trust without verification is blind trust. Blind trust is bad.

Good news: things can be automated now.

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“Sufficiently” is doing a lot of work in my statement.

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you would think the manufacture of the software/hardware would be 'financially motivated' if not 'reputationally motivated'

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