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/
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 24 2017, @07:49PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM [wikipedia.org]
Sort answer: the internet killed the cdrom star. If I dig deep enough, I am sure I can find a cd or two from them. Downloaded many a megabyte from ftp.cdrom.com. They used to proudly boast of the specs for their mighty FreeBSD powered ftp server. Something like a quad Pentium 3 Xeon with 4GB RAM. Thanks for that trip down memory lane.