There has been a lot of really insightful hindsight about the heartbeed issue. This one seems to fall into the category of "we should of expended more resources on such a critical piece of infrastructure", where resources could of been time, attention or money. That is true, but not really very helpful.
This particular observation comes up any time something goes wrong in any context. The stuff about the shallowness of bugs really has nothing to do with the argument. This bug was in fact quite shallow, some random entity just found it by looking. If more people had of been looking then it would of likely been found sooner. You can only find a bug once.
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There has been a lot of really insightful hindsight about the heartbeed issue. This one seems to fall into the category of "we should of expended more resources on such a critical piece of infrastructure", where resources could of been time, attention or money. That is true, but not really very helpful.
This particular observation comes up any time something goes wrong in any context. The stuff about the shallowness of bugs really has nothing to do with the argument. This bug was in fact quite shallow, some random entity just found it by looking. If more people had of been looking then it would of likely been found sooner. You can only find a bug once.