Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
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European regulators fined Meta for an engineering mistake that the social media giant first reported in 2019.
  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    44·
    1 year ago

    “mistake”

    I call BS. The reviews I’ve gone through for trivial stuff would’ve exposed this.

    This was intentional.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Hanlon’s Razor revised: Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence, except where there is an established pattern of malice.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Then incompetence at a level that’s incomprehensible.

        A code review certainly exposed this, and some manager signed off on the risk.

        Again, changes I make are trivial in comparison, and our code/risk reviews would’ve exposed this in no time.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, cause trivial systems are a lot easier to parse and review. At a base level that’s nonsense logic.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        My point being the extensiveness of a review process.

        The more important a system, the more people it impacts, etc, the more extensive the review process.

        Someone chose to ignore this risk. That’s intentional.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You quite frankly, don’t know what happened and if you’re confident it’s intentional, all that says is that you’re a grump who likes to complain.