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Sometimes it’s basically that the person in charge of fixing it didn’t. A year ago one of the fixes for a widespread remote execution flaw was to see if the use

Sometimes it’s basically that the person in charge of fixing it didn’t. A year ago one of the fixes for a widespread remote execution flaw was to see if the user agent was curl.

ceejayoz 7y ago
That was Cisco. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225
Rapzid 7y ago
My experience has been that it's extremely common for the average developer to fix the symptom instead of the root cause.