Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming but doing it word for word is bad. Even a third grader knows that copying a essay word for word from his friend would get him caught by the teacher. But NissanConnect EV mobile app developer seems to have forgotten this cardinal rule.
— Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) May 4, 2016 Scott Helme, a security researcher, caught the developer red-handed when a verbatim Stack Overflow answer showed up in the most recent app update. Helme immediately tweeted his find which is given above. Its funny that the line of code which contains Stack Overflow motto “the spirit of stack overflow is coders helping coders” escaped the eyes of Nissan App development and quality control checks. Like I said above, NissanConnect EV mobile app is known for using insecure APIs which can be hacked from anywhere in the world. The two security researchers, Scott Helme and Troy Hunt demonstrated vulnerabilities in the NissanConnect EV mobile app remote management APIs that allow anyone with the VIN number of the car to access certain features of it from anywhere across the Internet.
