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		on_and_off on July 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steam hit by major security breach Writing such an exploitable code is entirely forgivable. However, I would expect such a critical module to be thoroughly unit tested. I am going to venture that it probably was not the case.

gauravagarwalr on July 27, 2015 [–]

Not exactly sure how forgivable this is. But yes, unit testing and writing a few negative scenarios would have caught this problem early on.

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