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The problem isn't the corporation....

[quote]It's pretty pathetic that Google let themselves be wide open to this,[/quote]

...The problem is the programmer who was tooo lazy to make the code do data checking. When I was an undergraduate in college, some of the post-grad students who marked the papers would give me extra credit for may data-check routines that I always inserted --reuseable code I did years before that I always use in every application-- while some of them would take off marks for "wasted time," "not staying on the task at hand," "unnecessary coding that causes confusion," or "complex coding introduces greater risk of errors."

It was shocking that post-grad students who will soon be in the workforce would think that way. Fortunately for me, if I ever got marks removed for my data-integrity checks, I would go to my proffessor who would not only give me my marks back but give me extra credit. It pays to be careful but Google as a corporation cannot check every programmer's code everytime but what they can do is that when it is found, --i.e., after the fact-- that programmer can be reprimanded or fired.

It's pretty pathetic that some programmers --not Google, Yahoo!, or any other corporation-- still assume that the data they get will not be flawed or compromised. I mean, why should anyone ever need to be concerned with buffer overflow? Why? Because some programmers are lazy!

Posted by: The King's Servant   Posted on: 10/11/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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