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Re:Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoo... by chii on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:23PM (#47759273)
building around bugs that you know exists but dont know where is also a part of it. Reliability in the face of bugs. The mere existence of bugs isn't enough to call the software buggy, if the outcome is reliable (e.g., a triple module redundancy).
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Re:Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoo... by eru on Monday April 13, 2026 @11:31PM (#47760922)
For a silly example, see how Python programs have plenty of bugs, but they still (usually) don't allow for the kind of memory exploits that C programs give you.

You could say that Python is designed around preventing these memory bugs.

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