[ Thanks to Kelledin for this link.
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“Increasingly incompetent developers are creeping their way into
important projects. Considering that most good programmers are
pretty bad at security, bad programmers with roles in important
projects are guaranteed to doom the world to oblivion. The author
feels that a step toward washing himself clean of responsibility is
by writing this document. Checking your memcpy() and malloc() calls
have been lectured to death. It’s not working. The approach used by
this document is to instead shame developers into producing better
systems. Enjoy…“Call yourself a computer professional? Congratulations. You are
responsible for the imminent collapse of civilization. If you atone
for your sins now, we may be able to steer ourselves away from a
collision course with destiny before it’s too late.“The onus lies on you. And me. People ask us to put their
systems together and make them work. They aren’t going to worry
about security unless we do. We have a responsibility to take this
seriously…”