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Is anyone the least surprised by this?

• astrodust 10y ago
  Samsung and security problems go together like peanut-butter and jelly or PHP and MySQL.
• danso 10y ago
  ...Yes? I mean, Samsung is a big enough company with big enough profits to attract talented candidates and also be selective: https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-prepare-for-the-Samsung-interview-Can-seniors-share-their-experiences-What-all-must-we-do https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-prepare-for-the-Samsung-... Furthermore, their mobile business is mature and well-known enough that even if they were staffed with complete amateurs whose legacy code was awful, Samsung has been a prominent player for a long time in terms of tech-biz-years. The chances are significant that they have among their ranks a wise-enough manager to realize that it's time to tackle technical debt. Or, in lieu of that, that Samsung would've by now had a come-to-Security-Jesus security fuckup traumatic enough to force a thorough audit and revamp. Clearly that hasn't happened here so I'm interested in learning the details as they come out.
  • khedoros1 10y ago
    I interviewed for a position with one of their Smart TV software development teams. They gave me a simple-ish problem to solve. It needed to be C++ code, it needed to contain no mistakes (although they wouldn't give me a list of what they'd consider "mistakes"), and it had to be done in a plain text editor while talking to the interviewer on the phone. I took from their "perfect on the first try" requirement for interviewing that their strategy for handling technical debt was supposed to be "don't create technical debt".
  • djfumberger 10y ago
    Maybe then security is less to do with individuals and more so company culture ?
    • jolux 10y ago
      I would think that's pretty obvious but I guess not.