Michael Rivero doesn't get it

Much as I admire Mike's work and the service he is performing, I have to take exception to his response to an article about defective software in, of all places, rense.com:

The problem is that software engineers are having to STOP work on the product software to run around in circles dealing with hackers, worm writers, virus writers, porno spammers. etc. It is the fault of these cyber-criminals that our software is far from perfect, yet costs more.

While there are plenty of reasons for software suckage, programmers lacking time on account of being too busy fighting hackers and spammers is definitely not one of them.