>My skill is identifying possible attack vectors, whether or not they've been exploited.
Ok, but EU legal systems (after Brexit) I think are all Napoleonic systems and not common law, furthermore as the 'cookie law' is a directive and not an actual law and is thus supposed to be imposed the same way across all EU lands I don't think this could be as exploitable as it might otherwise be.
> ...Napoleonic systems and not common law, furthermore as the
> the 'cookie law' is a directive and not an actual law...
And the fact that I have no idea what "Napoleonic systems" are, nor what "common law" is and how that differs from non-common law, nor what the difference would be between a "directive" and an "actual law", all shows why I won't understand that fifty thousand word spec.
Of course, I could go get an education in law. Or I could implement the cookie popup.
You are supposed to know what civil law and common law is, this is part of general school education. The same goes for the difference between regulation, directive and national law, in case you are an EU resident.
You don't appear to have the aptitude to educate yourself when you notice that something confuses you or you are ignorant about a topic, c.f. post id=29529880.
I think it would be reasonably charitable to assume that when the poster uses I in that post they are using it as shorthand for a hypothetical person that needs to decide whether or not they should implement cookie popup, and not a complete admission of ignorance or disinterest in learning anything on their part.
To me it reads GGP meant exactly as he wrote it. You have given no reason to back the assumption that the pronoun "I" refers not to himself, but to some other hypothetical person. Therefore I find that unreasonably charitable.
I actually don't mind the personal attack, as I also believe that we should encourage a higher bar to entry than is currently acceptable for software developers.
I do not live in the EU. I did not learn what civil law nor common law is, neither did I learn the difference between regulation, directive and national law. Out of interest, I work with people who grew up in France, Russia, the United States, and Argentina in addition to locals. I'll ask them if these terms are familiar to them.
Perhaps in fact I don't have the aptitude. Or more likely, I see the tradeoff between "understanding every nuance of a 50,000 word document in a field I'm unfamiliar with that carries severe penalties for my client" vs. "implement cookie warning" differently than you do.
OTOH, enlightenment about both terms is a simple Internet search away. Literally at your fingertips.
I could give you layman definitions good enough for this discussion in about half a dozen words each... But, hey, let's not reward auotingrained helplessness.
