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Stack overflow releases 2017 data. Some interesting findns....
If you are techie or in IT , go check it!

https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 Get insights on the world’s developers from the largest and most comprehensive survey ever. Demographics. Technologies. Salaries. Career satisfaction.

Today early morning we saw disclosures, in a major internet security incidence, coming from Google and Cloudflare that Cloudflare servers were leaking traces of Personally identifiable information (PII) in response to internet (http) requests. As per official comment from Cloudflare approximately 150 Cloudflare customer sites worldwide in all sizes are affected. Any exploitation of PII leak is not yet known. Though only Cloudflare customer sites are affected implying Google and other major self reliant internet tech companies are not affected.

Security Disclosure: We partner with Cloudflare for many of our services. Customer data residing on our products and services is prima-facie not affected as we always split our authentication services and public resources over two different cloud providers.

Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug Last Friday, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero contacted Cloudflare to report a security problem with our edge servers. He was seeing corrupted web pages being returned by some HTTP requests run through Cloudflare. It turned out that in some unusual circumstances, which I’ll detail below, our...