The candidate who can ask that is already better than the candidate that jumps straight into a solution. If I'm the interviewer, I'd be impressed with such a ca

The candidate who can ask that is already better than the candidate that jumps straight into a solution. If I'm the interviewer, I'd be impressed with such a candidate. And frankly this is a needed skill. Candidates who automatically think about adversarial scenarios tend to write more defensive code, not to mention fewer vulnerabilities.