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It's a shame these companies are so cheap that they don't hire real developers.

• widget 15y ago
  It's not necessarily a matter of them being cheap, good developers are hard to find, and the only people who can tell the difference are/were good developers themselves. This is doubly true with security. There is no cosmetic or usability difference between a secure application and a nightmare that leads to thousands of leaked passwords. So companies that don't already have a good group of developers are screwed when hiring, and companies that don't consider their existing team's decision as the most important factor when hiring are asking for trouble.
• peterwwillis 15y ago
  You think Fortune 500 companies don't hire complete idiots too? They just have 5 extra people for every 1 developer to double check whether or not the developer did something stupid, test the site for obvious vulns, etc.
• mirkules 15y ago
  This could happen to any developer. All it takes is a dumb installation package to screw up your permissions, or something similarly trivial. Also, it's not a matter of development, but security and system administration. They are often performed not only by different people, but sometimes even by different sub-organizations in different physical locations. It's not a good excuse, but we shouldn't be so quick to judge developers author knowing what exactly happened.