Reply to post: Re: Who's more evil - the hackers or these analysts?

Malware analysts tell crooks to shape up and write decent code

Wzrd1 Silver badge

Re: Who's more evil - the hackers or these analysts?

Well, one of two things will happen.

Either their prediction will be true and nothing will be done to improve the coding, which is likely. After all, don't fix it if it's working and hence, isn't broken.

Or, they'll be listened to by the APT leadership and efforts will be down for some time as the coders learn how to properly code. Then, the folks analyzing the code will be commanding even more of a premium in their pay and hence, to company profits in elevated pricing, just to compensate for the increased quality.

From my own personal experience with APT's, I suspect it'll be the former.

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