# Emergent Design Issues

DevFeed: [Emergent Design Issues](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/emergent-design-issues-36774.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/emergent-design-issues/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2017-10-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/requirements.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/requirements.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary questions the tendency to describe every security-related issue as a vulnerability. Using SS7 and software design examples, it distinguishes vulnerabilities from design flaws and argues that software requirements and threat models are often unclear or undisclosed.

## Source excerpt

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