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

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: 2) by bradley13 on Monday April 24 2017, @05:59AM (1 child)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday April 24 2017, @05:59AM (#498675) Homepage Journal

    I understand your point, but consider: Some programmers don't have time and/or interest to maintain a lot of open-source code just for the fun of it. Maintaining a lot of "perfect" code (and perfect by whose standard) is a lot of effort.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 24 2017, @04:32PM

    Doesn't need to be a lot. Just needs to be enough to see examples of being able to keep from shooting yourself in the dick.

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