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Why is self-auditing a bad idea?

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Why is self-auditing a bad idea?

While scrolling through Twitter, I stumbled upon this tweet from Ashton Kutcher. > We’re auditing ourselves. We followed the industry standards and haven’t found any glitches. But, we believe we should hold ourselves to higher standards. We learned a lot and are going to write it all up and

Do you need to know programming to work as an auditor?

Do you need to know programming to work as an auditor?

Yes . . . . . . I get this question lately a lot. My answer to this is Yes, profound Yes. Without programming knowledge, you wouldn't know what parts of the system to check, how to check them, etc. In Ethereum, you have few options to chose from. Solidity is the most popular smart contract

How to become smart contract auditor?

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How to become smart contract auditor?

I would like to tell you it's an easy route to become one, but it isn't and there isn't a single path you need to take to become one. But there are multiple things you should do to increase your chances. First thing would be to understand basics very well.

How I approach new code for an audit?

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How I approach new code for an audit?

I will lay down the most common, repeated things I do when starting a new audit. I'm not saying this is how things should be done, probably there are more efficient and better ways to approach a new audit, but that's how I've been doing it. Reconnaissance The first thing

The role of the auditor

The role of the auditor

It will be a short rant of how client often sees auditors and treats auditors. I won't go. Into details what goes into a good preparation of the audit as I already covered that in another article [https://www.adrianhetman.com/how-to-prepare-for-a-security-audit/], but now I will discuss how cooperation between

Bad day in the life of an auditor

Bad day in the life of an auditor

Do you know that feeling when you accidentally deleted something you should and couldn’t recover it? This happened to me yesterday when I deleted all the audit notes and findings by mistake, with the report being due until today's early morning. I still don’t know how it happened,

State of security of new DeFi projects

State of security of new DeFi projects

This will be a continuation of a rant on how clients should prepare for an audit. [https://www.adrianhetman.com/how-to-prepare-for-a-security-audit/] Opinions and views are my own if you haven’t catch that 😉 I’ve been auditing smart contracts for 8 months now. I’ve seen my fair share of