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Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| 
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>On 9/24/07, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine) <ben at projectskyline.com> wrote:
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>>I recently finished a security audit and pen test for a client. I couldn't
>>believe the problems they had.
>>They found a developer off CL and with his impressive portfolio decided to
>>work with him. Now my
>>firm, 8 months later, is fixing all the developers mistakes. They had cookie
>>based auth, file upload
>>exploits, xss, sql injection, ... you name it we could do it. Anyways, its
>>just sad to see these types of
>>moonlight coders calling themselves developers and doing an awful jobs at
>>writing software and leaving
>>their clients exposed.
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>You know what? As long as the market for geeks remains hot like it is
>now, there will be these parasites making us all look bad. Unfortunate
>but true, and I distinctly remember observing this last time around in
>the late 90s. Once the bubble burst and the economy went into the
>toilet, all these folks went back to whatever it was they were doing
>before jumping on the web developer bandwagon in disguise.
>
>-- Mitch
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Wow Mitch, you just described the SEO field to a T.

-=john

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