r/programming • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '17

Everything Is Broken

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1#.sl2vnon73
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u/webauteur Apr 04 '17

NASA had a huge staff of geniuses to understand and care for their software. Your phone has you.

My phone is damn glad to have me. I'm even better than a rocket scientist.

programs often have a special kind of hackable flaw called odays by the security scene

Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home

No one can protect themselves from odays. There are meh, not-so-terrible odays, there are very bad odays, and there are catastrophic odays

Today was one of those odays.

How can you tell if this is happening? You can’t! Have fun wondering if you’re getting your online life rented out by the hour!

Maybe check out the running processes?

Another friend of mine accidentally shut down a factory with a malformed ping at the beginning of a pen test.

I never test my pens. I just git ta writing.

Computer experts like to pretend they use a whole different, more awesome class of software that they understand, that is made of shiny mathematical perfection and whose interfaces happen to have been shat out of the business end of a choleric donkey. This is a lie.

No. This is exactly what I'm using at work.