My editor is probably going to ask me to change this sentence, so I'll share it with you.
"If you have no privilege escalation issues because you’re already running as root fucking fix that shit."
If I understand this morning's news properly, we're invading Venezuela because they nationalized some American oil company's assets and gave it to Venezuelan companies. In unrelated news, America has nationalized TikTok and given it to American companies.
I know there's a long academic literature on the question of "do programmers make similar mistakes." Has that work been extended to security? Do programmers make the same sorts of security mistakes when writing similar programs?
