The scale of incompetence in our industry should be embarassing. You can also see it in the public statements made by some SV 'leaders' - what other industry has prominent people making fools of themselves like that? Is it a surprise that their products are poorly made or often scams? When people tell you who they are, believe them!
If you want to see something scary, look at the fake story Demirkapi managed to post, and note the domain name - actually nytimes.com! (IMPORTANT: The story is not real!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230330043732/https://intl.prd....
Again, that's not real. But if the hacker tried, lots of people could react long before they realize it.
Recent research showed the increase in the number of programmers twofold every year all over the world.
We are still a very inexperienced and unregulated industry.
There was just some patch that added '/' protection, because that's the only character that's not allowed in filenames.
https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/46f7109a9e03df89b66ada...