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One thing I love about Stack Exchange is the ability to add "This advice is INSECURE! See Beth's answer below for a better way to solve this problem." to accept
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
One thing I love about Stack Exchange is the ability to add "This advice is INSECURE! See Beth's answer below for a better way to solve this problem." to accepted answers with really bad suggestions.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoThese kinds of answers get called out fairly quickly.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoNot always. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/293930/problematic-php-cryptography-advice-in-popular-questions https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/293930/problematic-...
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI briefly played around on StackOverflow and StackExchange Security as Nick P. I remember doing exactly what you describe a few times where some bullshit or sometimes wisdom from other comments/answers needed attention. One, which didn't mention other author, got changed to accepted answer and was about half my karma haha. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16062432/protecting-java-source-code-from-being-accessed/16066487#16066487 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16062432/protecting-java... I figured the site was addictive like digital crack early on. Wisely avoided spending too much time on it. Anything like that. (Pauses to look at address bar.) Or did I...?