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BigBoo23216yEven an incompetent dev will know if the solution you provide doesn't work though.
So youd have to implement a bot that can solve the problem and inject a security flaw. -
@BigBoo even simple solutions can be devastatingly unsafe.
Example: how do I "press any key to continue..." In C?
Answer: system("pause")
Super simple and tons if not every junior Dev has done it at some point in college.
Insecurity: asks the OS to run the "pause" binary. Binary replacement or path hijacking makes this terribly bad. -
To be honest many of the answers I see as the solution already are vulnerable, if you took a step back you could pick up the top rated code snippets and do some static analysis and flag up the vulnerabilities rather than post them
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rant1ng45676yYears ago when I was using So a lot... Frankly, thought this was already being done..
Some threads looked like hacker collaborations to create /inject shit
But then I also was taking a lot of Adderall so...
Stack overflow bots that will post vulnerable code snippets in the response section of popular questions and then upvote each others code and push it to the top.
Stack overflow bots that will post vulnerable code snippets in the response section of popular questions and then upvote each others code and push it to the top.