[Wolves] Scumbags Hack Xoops site

[Steve Parkes]

David Goodwin wrote:

> 
> (Some might argue that the use of langagues like Ada 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_programming_language) and a derivative 
> SPARK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_programming_language)
> 
> 

This brings us on to one of the roots of the problem.  While I happily 
point out the developers of most foss cms systems have little experience 
in software development methodology the whole concept of defensive 
programming became a forgotten art during the 80's and especially the 
early 90's.  Many coders on these projects learned from resources 
created during these dangerous times.

I'm sure Ron's code doesn't have buffer overflows and he knows what 
every byte does but that's because he learnt to code in a period when 
you needed to know these things.  As the barriers to programming got 
lower so did the knowledge of the art.

I love to see beginers developing stuff it's how I learned how to do it 
but these programmers should stick to things that don't have access to 
priviliged data until they understand how to develop defensivly.

sparkes