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by sln 3848 days ago
You missed the whole point of this essay. The fastest code to write is often insecure because languages, apis and so on are almost always insecure-by-default.

If you write code fast because you have a life at home to get to, and I write code fast because my employer needs it right now, and someone else writes code fast because they have a large ego to maintain, what really is the difference? If the simplest thing to do is also reasonably secure then the hope is a 30 minute deadline will not lead to an accidental security flaw.