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.
  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    2 months 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
      1·
      1 month 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.