Consider the human body. Compare that to a nice efficent virus, like influenza. Isn't it disgraceful that humans are so bloated and inefficient? Why, it's billions of times bigger than a virus! Shouldn't we be designing nice simple single-celled humans without all the overhead of brains, limbs, sexual reproduction, etc?

The number of bytes on disk a program occupies is one of the least interesting factors about its security or lack thereof. For example, writing a progam in a higher-level language such as Java or C# will make it use more memory and drag in megs of supporting libraries. However, it will probably be safer than a corresponding C proram.

This article seems highly confused to me.

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