Lesson: You Ain't Gonna Need It

You Aren't Going to Need It

Developers will often speculate that they need more than what is necessary. Meant to point out a form of over-engineering, YAGNI is about simplifying your system.

Simplicity is closely related to security. The more complex your task, the harder it is to see your mistakes. You want to look for obviously no mistakes instead of no obvious mistakes.

These are vulnerabilities where the curators believe that a lesson to be learned here was related to YAGNI.