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Top-Ranked Programming Web Tutorials Introduce Vulnerabilities Into Software

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 23 2017, @08:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again-it's-PHP dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Researchers have checked 64,000+ GitHub projects, and found 117 vulnerabilities introduced through the use of code from popular programming tutorials.

Things like this are why I would never hire a professional programmer without an online portfolio of source code to check for Blatant Stupidity.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/04/21/programming-tutorials-vulnerabilities/

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:14PM (#498519)

    It's like you're suggesting professionals never test anything. Yes, errata exist. No, upvoted rumors passed around by idiots on a social site are not substitutes for documentation.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:51PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:51PM (#498530) Homepage

    They don't test anything. Okay, they test the bare minimum of what they must and cobble things together in barely workable condition and worry about the problems later.

    That being said, I never started that the Stack Overflow approach was rigorous, but it would be a hell of a lot more tolerable if they nuked all those "How do I use for loop, plz do my homework" questions from orbit.

    It would be nice if there were something a little more like Microwaves 101 [microwaves101.com] for coding.