• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    You are acting like someone checked off a “log passwords” box, as if that’s a thing that even exists

    Someone configured a logger to write HTTP bodies and headers, not realizing they needed to build a custom handler to iterate through every body and header anonymizing any fields that may plausibly contain sensitive information. It’s something that literally every dev has done at some point before they knew better.

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      1 hour ago

      It’s something that literally every dev has done at some point before they knew better.

      If you’re working for a multinational tech company handling sensitive user data and still make this mistake, then you are being malicious in your incompetence. This is something that would cause you to lose a significant amount of marks on a first year college programming project, let alone a production system used by literally billions of people.