[recursivetech]

A few years back, I recall reading about some automotive manufacturers who had just copied an example "airbag arming authorization" code/value that appeared in a shared spec document (IIRC) for their vehicles. There was a Metasploit module created (for the Hardware Bridge) that would send CAN bus messages to just check/verify if a particular vehicle uses this insecure arming code. For vehicles using this known code, an attacker with CAN bus access could deploy airbags on an unsuspecting target during vehicle operation. https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/12/22/metasploit-wrapu...

[eschneider]

I've done some commercial software SDKs and this strikes me as the least surprising thing in the world. MOST programmers will copy and paste example code into production applications without really thinking about how well it fits into what they're doing.

The takeaway is similar to the article: think very, VERY hard about your examples and sample code. It doesn't just have to be correct and demonstrate the features, it also needs to be fairly robust so that customers don't hurt themselves with it.