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by KeepFlying 636 days ago
My favorite is "I'll log out the state of this object, it's all okay for privacy because I've checked every field and gotten the privacy reviews to prove it" then a few months later someone adds a new field to the object not realizing it's logged by a lower layer to a table no one remembers exists....

Then a month later someone queries that table and....oh shit.

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Thats a good one. Seems like a scenario that is even more likely to happen because it would be much harder to find it in a code review than printf("user: %s, password: %s", userName, password) especially in a very large codebase. There is a lot less negligence required (though obviously not completely negligent free)