| Alright, I'm burnt out and I don't want to think about work for a few mins, so: I tire of the logic such as "well...what IF...someone...did that intentionally!" Then people think they're smarter than everyone else, using words like sheeple and such. Shit happens. Merges fail. Teams miss stuff. I once randomly discovered a hole in a web app where data was being leaked from an ajax call without logging in. No conspiracy. Yes, if I were a 1337 haxxor and I wanted to disguise a commit to, say, Linux for my backdoor I would disguise it as a mistake. Totally right, that would be smart and awesome. I'd have something to say on the next HN post of "What makes a Senior Software Engineer", because a junior engineer would not be this smart. As an aside, long before the NSA reveals of 2013 there had been reports of back doors in skype. My clock skew causes me to forget how many years ago that was, but I'm gonna say somewhere 2005-2008. As 2013 passed, I thought back on that and laughed. So yeah, Skype is backdoored. Is this one of them? Perhaps. Or it's yet another big corp fail. Orrrr...getting crazy now....it's a bug, but then it was discovered long ago by smart people and has been exploited. So it wasn't internal conspiracy, just a good find by some NSA dude. Anyway. Back to my code. |