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If we expect employees speaking up to fix this, we are going to live in constant disappointment. The pro-privacy people live in a very small, but loud, echo cha

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  It's not just apathy, it's also because there's often so much you can do without pissing off the management or generally looking like a "bad culture fit". And then they'll get someone else to do it anyway. At my current job, I don't have any privacy-related issues, but I have to handle occasional clueless ideas from the customer. It usually goes like this: They: We want to have this security-related change X. Me: Uh ok... but are you sure it's a good idea? What's your threat model? They: ??? Me: You see, this change will make it more difficult for user to do Y, with no real benefit to security, because A, B and C. They: Uh... yes, you're right; let's not do it then. Fast-forward one or two other attempts at proposing the same change and half a year later, I find the change implemented in the codebase anyway. Turns out some other manager on customer's side asked someone else in my company to implement it. -.-