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Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open

Notas Badoff
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Re: Always been there or new?

The phrase "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is mentioned a lot, but there is rarely a mention, and never praise, for "fumbling fingers". Given a large population of fumbling fingers, all bugs are hit multiple times. Then you only need one poor (but intelligent) sot to say "why did that happen?" and then go rooting around in the code. But remember, likely this bug was found because one person got clumsy with an editor in a script and wondered "where did that crap come from? oh, that looks like..."

Dyspraxics fall all over themselves to be helpful!

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