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by gens 3413 days ago
Thing is that.. JS is usually broken, the world is usually unfair, IoT has proven itself to be usually shit and most frameworks are bad.

Xerox is not a small startup that just wants to make printing easier. Even if it was, at least some basic security practices should be considered.

I mean i'm here writing a dinky little website using SQL and golang (i am a newbie at bout) and I am sterilizing inputs to make sure that SQL injection can't happen. Meanwhile the United Nations(!!) website has been exploited by same. There's even a defcon(?) talk about how a firm was hired to asses the security of that UN website and when the guy sent them an email saying that it is vulnerable to SQL injection, they responded by threatening him to never do that (year later it wasn't fixed). Wish i could find that talk.. it was great. Then there is the Technicolor router (big company) that my cousin has, that i just googled to find it vulnerable to all kinds of things and just horrid in general. Then there is ...