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@wdormann It's funny (and rather cringe-inducing) to us infosec folks, but to 99% of developers they will always say "why would anyone do that?"

The vast majority just truly have no concept that anyone might want to act maliciously. If the engineer themself wouldn't perform a malicious action, they cannot conceive that anyone else would.

I have run into this issue so many times during my career. I now assume that no engineer will ever consider possible malicious actions taken against their code. To the extent that they do consider malicious actions, it will only be things that they themselves would do.