Software developers have been lionized in recent years for their influence over the information economy. At the Node Summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Guy Podjarny, CEO and cofounder of security biz Snyk, reminded an audience full of devs that they've become a popular vector for malware distribution.

Programmers, he said "have become far more powerful today than ever before" in terms of their access to information and their reach.

At the same time, he said, they're often overconfident about their susceptibility to attack. He pointed to an internal Salesforce phishing test that found developers were the second most likely group of employees to click on a phishing link. Marketers were the most gullible, apparently.

To underscore that point, he recounted the 2013 hack of The Financial Times by thethe league in offensive efficiency, scoring 110.9 points per 100 possessions, despite ranking 12th in points per game (102.2), largely because it made a league-leading 50.1% of its shots.

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