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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, 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.

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  • (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?