I DON’T LIKE THIS CODE!!!

By: Louis Nyffenegger

You have probably seen plenty of talks about amazing vulnerabilities where the code is either horrendous, or it feels like the presenter dug deep into the perfect rabbit hole. The secret behind many of these stories is simple: once you have read enough code, you know exactly what to investigate. Your spidey sense starts tingling.

In this session, we turn that feeling into a game! We will walk through a series of real-world inspired code snippets and give you one minute to tell us why we do not like this code. Then we will break down, point by point, what feels wrong, what is risky, and how it could fail in practice. By the end, you will leave with a reusable mental checklist for “I don’t like this code” moments and a more systematic approach to security code review.