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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is ine of the reposts, I will upvote each and every time I see it ngl

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I kinda look at it and think 'who writes unstructured dB inserts with unescaped string interpolation in 2024?'

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 years ago

You're assuming this isn't code from 10, 15, 20 years ago.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Places that use the cheapest developers they can; which government websites seem to always do.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

The UK government runs on Windows 98 (they've modified it over the years to the point that updating would break everything) and I believe the NHS runs on XP.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry to say from experience that's happening right now.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

It's worth a try

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obligatory XKCD

ALPR databases are anti-privacy and anti-public, and all efforts to sabotage the police state are praiseworthy.

That said, I was sanitizing my data fields in 1985 (partly because we expected users to try to cause interrupts), so its worrysome they don't do it now.

To be fair, I'm not vigilant about screening my manufacturing feeds in Satisfactory.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I’ve migrated apps from string concatted sql to orms in our spring projects.

Those app unfortunately still exist.