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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I kinda look at it and think 'who writes unstructured dB inserts with unescaped string interpolation in 2024?'

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 25 points 6 months ago

You're assuming this isn't code from 10, 15, 20 years ago.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Places that use the cheapest developers they can; which government websites seem to always do.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

The UK government runs on Windows 98 (they've modified it over the years to the point that updating would break everything) and I believe the NHS runs on XP.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry to say from experience that's happening right now.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

It's worth a try