Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

Post by qstyk » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 10:50 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #185

nabla9 wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Engineer" conveys image of middle class white-collar job with relatively high status, good education and responsibilities. That word now used for everyone doing programming related jobs inside office space for no good reason. I think the word "tehnician" should be used to describe most grey-collar ICT jobs, including most programmers. Their responsibility and scope of their work is limited. Many programming jobs are…

Thankfully there are countries where Engineer is still a proper word, not something that you are allowed to call yourself after a 6 month bootcamp.

That said, there's many variants that are perfect valid: network engineer, sales engineer, systems engineer, etc.

Post by stebann » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 12:14 AM UTC

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #53

danso wrote: post #8

Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.

Having been involved in meetings where "stop ship" was the phrase of the day, I'd bet money that the following at least vaguely resembles a real conversation: Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly. Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won't break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line's revenue? Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day?…

Wow, You got this one!

Re: Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

Re: Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent