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Relying on developers to read and remember every bit of documentation for every bit of code is more likely to end up with insecure code compared to introducing
by blowski 10y ago
Relying on developers to read and remember every bit of documentation for every bit of code is more likely to end up with insecure code compared to introducing sane defaults with an explicit, expressive API.
- SEJeff 10y agoAnd the TL;DNR being: developers can't be expected to do a good job. Some of them in fact will do a terrible job. This can be said for every industry involving people.
- guyzmo 10y agoThe sad truth is: s/Some/Most/
- afarrell 10y agoAnd the way we handle that is by designing systems to compensate for the fallibility of humans so that the human-computer system is more robust as a whole.
- hueving 10y agoWhich is why any sane industry has lots of safety involved. We don't just shrug every time someone gets electrocuted to death and say "they forgot part c page 4 of the operations manual which indicates that the off switch doesn't work on tuesdays".
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