Re:Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into ...
by worik on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:37PM
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Depends.
Security flaws are not created the same. Mostly they are hypothetical. A buffer can over flow and smash the stack, but what then?
A security flaw that costs a million dollars to find and has very little chance of being actually used is not worth finding. But when you start looking, you do ot what you will find.
Security flaws are not created the same. Mostly they are hypothetical. A buffer can over flow and smash the stack, but what then?
A security flaw that costs a million dollars to find and has very little chance of being actually used is not worth finding. But when you start looking, you do ot what you will find.
Like most things, ity is a trade off