Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by admax88q on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:47AM (#19510158)

> Thousands of engineers at companies like Google

That's an appeal to authority. It's also worth noting that nodejs is not a Google project and it is barely used internally at all. Only for small toy projects. Google uses python for scripting, or java for real servers.

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Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by onion2k on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:19AM (#19510300)

That's an appeal to authority.

It is, but it's also shorthand for "people who are likely to be good based on the fact they've been through a rigorous hiring process designed to filter out the worst engineers". Sometimes, maybe, you should let the principle of charity win over the rigorous rhetorical logic you can use to dismiss an argument because it broke The Rules you learned on LessWrong.

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Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by myWindoonn on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:02AM (#19511740)

Ex-Googler (Xoogler) here. It's an appeal to authority; Googlers don't know shit and FAANG employees aren't magically good at their jobs.

Maybe you shouldn't try pulling the Principle of Charity to support an argument from authority.

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