Yesterday I wrote about the advantages of frameworks (olabayobalogun.hashnode.dev/advantages-of-f..) in executing things like the login and authentication page. Today I'll take things a step further by writing about an area of concern for developers.
Today, we have an unprecedented spike in cybercrime, this malady is what necessitates the need for added features that enables us to track and identify netizens, we have things like IP addresses, IMEI numbers and others which help to provide a semblance of accountability since we can trace activity through these things. Sadly, criminal elements have gotten smarter as failsafe features have been developed. Some criminal elements who lack software programming skills are now known to employ unsuspecting software engineers and deceive them into producing malicious software solutions.
A RELATABLE EXPLANATION
A lot of enterprise-level projects are built by dividing up tasks between a number of developers. It's uncommon for a developer to singlehandedly build an enterprise-level project because of the size and the amount of time that would be lost by relying on one developer. If a project is divided into enough parts, a software engineer may end up working on a project without knowing what the project aims to achieve. This doesn't in any way mean that the developer won't be culpable in the event that the software solution is discovered to be malicious.
From my explanation yesterday of how you're able to login and signup to different platforms via your social media handles it's apparent that measures have been put in place to identify the software engineer behind a software solution. These days, software engineers have to be quite careful about projects they take on, either as full-time staff or as freelancers. The kind of requests that are being made of software engineers would surprise you.
FINALLY
Because of the media portrayal of software engineers, the average software engineer is typically asked (by netizens) if they (software engineers) can build websites, apps and hack into secure digital infrastructure. All in all, it is becoming riskier to attempt malignant actions against the public through digital means, what this means is that over time, netizens will become safer on the internet. This is a win for everyone by and large.
