The number of times I’ve rejected something because of security flaws (usually database injection), only to see other engineers later approve and merge the pull request is infuriating. There seems to always be an engineer who is willing to make an unsafe product.
Yep, it’s a damn shame, but we’re gonna let them do that because we don’t want to be responsible for deaths or security flaws and ultimately there’s organizations and people out there who value that if our current jobs don’t
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The number of times I’ve rejected something because of security flaws (usually database injection), only to see other engineers later approve and merge the pull request is infuriating. There seems to always be an engineer who is willing to make an unsafe product.
Yep, it’s a damn shame, but we’re gonna let them do that because we don’t want to be responsible for deaths or security flaws and ultimately there’s organizations and people out there who value that if our current jobs don’t