On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:50:51 +0100, Paul wrote:

> There is LOTS of software out there that is supposedly written by
> trained people that is full of security holes and other issues. Often
> the issues is that the wrong type of people are used to do everything,
> assumption that doing anything is copy from stackoverflow (etc) because
> it is just adding a library call toi sort out 'x', or mamagement not
> wanting to waste time and money on that.
>
Quite. A lot of it is incompetence, but there's also idiots writing
obfuscated, unmaintainable code 'just because they could' and knowing
that they would not get the kicking they deserved for doing it.

This has been going on for years: here is a reference to a few choice
examples I had the misfortune to encounter in the '70s:

http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/comment/on_bad_coding.html


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