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Posted by: Tezzer (Tuesday 13 January 2009, 7:59 PM)

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After all this time

I can't understand how anyone who calls themselves a programmer should ever fail on input validation or buffer over-runs. These two are so absolutely basic. I learned about them in the early 80s as a (then) self-taught hobbyist programmer.

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