[wisemang]

> In the cybersecurity world, a database engineer inadvertently finding a backdoor in a core Linux feature is a little like a bakery worker who smells a freshly baked loaf of bread, senses something is off and correctly deduces that someone has tampered with the entire global yeast supply.

These kind of analogies are always a bit of an eye roll for me but I’ll grant a few points for creativity here

[derekp7]

Or someone finding a $.75 accounting error, and uncovering an international East-German hacker ring.

[bicepjai]

This is way better analogy

[HPsquared]

The wonders of open source.