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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext (therecord.media)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.