in reply to Re^6: Your main event may be another's side-show.
in thread Your main event may be another's side-show.

Even if their intentions are all good, eventually they're going to let loose on a crowd of innocents.

Don't you mean shoot themselves in the foot?

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Re^8: Your main event may be another's side-show.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 21, 2010 at 08:56 UTC
    Don't you mean shoot themselves in the foot?

    No. I don't think I do. If the fallout of incompetent programmers was confined to themselves, it might be acceptable to let them be. But there are plenty of cases where failure to take even the most elementary safeguards with other peoples data--place-holders & SQL injections; cookies with clear text credentials; etc.--that have lead to the crowd suffering, whilst the programmer goes scot-free.

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