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Paypal, Walmart are doing just fine handling huge amounts of transactions in JS. Majority of security breaches are via targeted emails with attachments and have
by qaq 9y ago
Paypal, Walmart are doing just fine handling huge amounts of transactions in JS. Majority of security breaches are via targeted emails with attachments and have very little to do with language services are written in.
- qaq 9y agoNot sure what is making everyone upset Paypal is doing 1.7 billion transaction per quarter (100 billion + in volume). 80%+ of breaches at companies are via email as a vector.
- yorwba 9y agoAre Paypal and Walmart actually handling their transactions in JS or is that just the front end? In either case, when they transfer money, they hopefully use a sane database transaction mechanism. AFAIK, that would have prevented the DAO hack.
- qaq 9y agoweb layer is Node so yes they are actually handling transactions in JS up to a point.
- azag0 9y agoYes, but Paypal nor Walmart don’t handle irreversible transactions. Nor are they platforms on which apps and custom transactions can be implemented. So I don’t think this is a good analogy.
- sealthedeal 9y agoWhy does "irreversible transaction" or "custom transactions" matter at all when talking about writing something in javascript?
- purerandomness 9y agoNone of those companies handles actual monetary transactions in JavaScript. That would be insane.
- qaq 9y agoDefine handling transactions, they have Node services which are touching cardholder data and are subject to PCI DSS compliance. The web layer is Node.