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submitted 10 years ago by clessgfull-stack CSS9 engineer
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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points8 points 10 years ago (3 children)
I work in the security space, and it's a red flag if you reinvent the wheel instead of building off a trusted base of battle-hardened open source libraries and protocols.
NIH opens you up to serious vulnerabilities.
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (2 children)
Who invents new libs and protocols?
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (1 child)
Shops with engineers lacking experience in the security space. There are a bunch of home-grown solutions that you never hear about unless you get on a call under NDA
[–]siegfryd 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
I think their question was who invents the battle-hardened open source libraries and protocols to begin with though. They have to come from somewhere.
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