We know that Stack Overflow is a daily part of a lot of developers’ lives. I’ve heard from multiple people that they come here daily (if not more often) to get answers to their questions. Sometimes the answer to a question about code comes as a chunk of code. And sometimes that code makes it into production applications because it answered the question perfectly. 

A group of researchers investigated these code snippets to see how secure they were, and if the security flaws that they introduced remained vulnerable in the project. Ashkan Sami, Associate Professor at Shiraz University, Foutse …