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How cut-and-pasted programming is putting the internet and society at risk
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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 970320" data-attributes="member: 86910"><p>If I have to build a bicycle before I can use it, that is even worse.</p><p></p><p>Using a library is not the same as copy and pasting.</p><p></p><p>The people who think they have the knowledge to build everything from scratch are the same that program their own encryption algorithms and build in errors because they are simply no cryptographic experts. I see this over and over happen in ransomware. The ones we cannot crack are usually those that use crypto APIs properly instead of attempting crypto themselves. (Granted, there are also people who use the crypto APIs the wrong way, but they would not do better if they wrote the API code themselves)</p><p></p><p>You cannot be an expert in everything and if you attempt to do that, you write the same dirty code that you are trying to avoid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 970320, member: 86910"] If I have to build a bicycle before I can use it, that is even worse. Using a library is not the same as copy and pasting. The people who think they have the knowledge to build everything from scratch are the same that program their own encryption algorithms and build in errors because they are simply no cryptographic experts. I see this over and over happen in ransomware. The ones we cannot crack are usually those that use crypto APIs properly instead of attempting crypto themselves. (Granted, there are also people who use the crypto APIs the wrong way, but they would not do better if they wrote the API code themselves) You cannot be an expert in everything and if you attempt to do that, you write the same dirty code that you are trying to avoid. [/QUOTE]
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