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The original qMail author, Dan Berstein (DJB) was so convinced of the infallibility of his code that he put up a monetary reward for any exploits. This context came about because DJB, as a professor of Computer Science, maintained that it is completely within the realm of reality to write unbuggy, yet complicated and highly functional code.

DJB welched on every claim at that bounty, and refused to pay out. He is an egotistical over-selfconfident person. He wrote good code back in the day, but he lost the forest for the trees.

parent arbitrage 6 years ago

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