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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
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:22PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:22PM (#498545)

    I have a portfolio of source code, but it's not on github, so it doesn't exist.

    My code is in downloadable tarballs, but nobody knows how to open tarballs, so it doesn't exist.

    According to everyone, I must never have written a line of code in my life.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:41PM (#498551)

    Balderdash! Michael David Crowford put all of his best work into tarballs, and MDC is the highest paid software guy around these parts. He's so popular with the skills and the can-do attitude that he doesn't even have to upload his fine work to GitHub. Other people put his work on GitHub for him. That's how popular he is, MDC has to fight off recruiters with a stick. If you want people to know you exist, you have to advertise yourself everywhere all the time constantly. Don't be a loser, be popular! Just like Michael David Crowford.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:08PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:08PM (#498568)

      That's what you think. The truth is Eris Blastar is MDC's feminist superhero alter ego. She sprung from his mind when MDC first saw Leighton Meester on television and he developed a secret fantasy family in which he was her father. Eris Blastar owns all of the work that Michael David Crawford doesn't want to admit he has done himself.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @05:29AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @05:29AM (#498667)

        I find your Eris Blaster theory intriguing, but Crawford doesn't have multiple personalities, do I?