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Are all security threats triggered by software bugs?

Most security threats that I’ve heard of have arisen due to a bug in the software (e.g. all input is not properly sanity checked, stack overflows, etc.). So if we exclude all social hacking, are all security threats due to bugs? In other words, if there were no bugs, would there be no security threats (again, excluding the faults of humans such as disclosing passwords and such)? Or can systems be exploited in ways not caused by bugs?

How do you deal with discovering bad and false code in your team? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How can I tactfully suggest improvements to others’ badly designed code during review? (16 answers) Fixing a bug while working on a different part of the code base (11 answers) Closed 11 years ago. Every year in january we process a big task with our system. While the performance […]