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Security quotes of the week

Posted Aug 23, 2012 12:55 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

But experienced programmers would hardly be expected to mess up a date comparison routine.

What a feeble argument: bugs happen even within the best families. Perhaps the "professionals" left date-handling routines to the intern?

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Posted Aug 24, 2012 9:06 UTC (Fri) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

I think it was supposed to be ironic.

Security quotes of the week

Posted Aug 26, 2012 14:54 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Totally went over my head then. As I read it, this factoid supports the author's theory: "This error indirectly confirms our initial conclusion that the Shamoon malware is not the Wiper malware that attacked Iranian systems". Also, it is not even funny!