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The author claims that software has become no more secure - despite the avalanche of security fixes appearing for all software everywhere.

Never mind the more subtle issues.

No.

"Bots found lots of issues and we fixed those issues" does not mean anyone was exploiting those issues. They may have remained buried forever.

The result is not "it's now more secure". The result is at best "it is theoretically more secure."

No. Issues don't need to be exploited to exist. As long as the exploit is possible security is impaired.

This is not controversial. In the least.