jakimfett
When I find my shell scripts from 20+ years ago, they still just run as intended.
It never does, because abstractly speaking, there is no such thing as a secure computing system. This goes double for any computer that is switched on.
Practically speaking, it depends on how critical your application might be. If you're storing values for neurosurgery or automated dispersal of life-saving (or potentially life-ending) medication, you'd better be sanitizing on the way in, validating on the way out, and have some additional layers like audits and comparisons to known good values at rest. Look into defense in depth, and never trust the computer to make a decision, because the computer cannot be held accountable.
If you're storing quiz results for someone's favourite colour, or it's not internet connected, you can probably be a bit less paranoid about it.
> Can everything be an injection attack?
But yeah, anything and everything could be an injection attack if the attacker is determined enough. It's just a matter of how difficult you want to make it for them.
Less short answer: Find people in the software space that appeals to you, and build a reputation of the sorts of competence that they will seek.
Even less short answer: Publish (your own software portfolio) or perish. Network (with people who you want to work with) or change your career path towards one that you can network within. Read books about connecting with others in your field, have conversations with people who know more than you. Establish yourself as a job-seeker, with job-seeking as your day job until you find one. Adapt. Adapt. Adapt.
Nobody can find the magic path for you, you must take one step at a time and learn from every failure. There is no honor here, only temporary respite, for the days of remaining at a stable tech company through a decade or two of a career are over, and those who do not adapt will not weather this storm or the ones yet to come.
If you can, find a different career path.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Make software your hobby, and learn to herd yaks, work wood, or bend metal.
Treating people as people, and making real connections is the future, and you're living in it before the market realizes that, so you'll do better in the long term.
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...a mandatory test puts serious amounts of potential harm in the hands of a field that historically (and as demonstrated by some of the regrettable opinions expressed in this conversation thread), completely ignores the rights and consent of a woman and child while discussing how men might feel or believe about said topics.
Relationships are complex things, and blanket legislation will never respect the full consent of the individuals involved. Give the mother freedom to request a pre-birth paternity test, and the child to request the results once they hit their teens, with confidential results.
Anything past that is a relationship issue (does your spouse / child feel safe telling you the truth?), and any form of mandatory testing pre-birth would very much violate the bodily consent of the mother. Post-birth, if it's not a medically necessary operation, which paternity is not, it waits for when the kid is old enough to understand consent.
Consent is not a debate. Consent is about functional boundary. In this case, it is simple:
Not your body? Not your choice.
Enable (their) choice instead of trying to control women and children's bodies, please.
Check around tho, other alternatives exist, and Steam...well, it'll continue to exist without your ongoing support, at the very least.
https://alternativeto.net/software/steam/?license=opensource