Reading code

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Scanners find what’s syntactically wrong. The interesting issues live in assumptions – and assumptions don’t have signatures.

Not scanning, not fuzzing. Just reading code the way you’d read it if you were about to own it in production. Entry points, data flows, where input meets trust.

Missing headers, outdated dependencies – that’s the baseline, scanners handle it fine. The interesting issues live a layer deeper. A path that’s protected in one subsystem but wide open in another. A parse-time operation that nobody thought to bound. Code that was correct when it was written but the system grew around it.

Debugging on vnykmshr

Reading code