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I'm not saying we shouldn't have serious questions about his competence after this breach. Rather, my point is that we should be questioning his competence (and

I'm not saying we shouldn't have serious questions about his competence after this breach. Rather, my point is that we should be questioning his competence (and that of the rest of the executive team's) due to this breach, not his credentials. If he had a CS degree, that wouldn't make him any less responsible for this massive data leak.

rbanffy 9y ago
Usually, the larger the company, the deeper processes go, shielding it from individual incompetence (so the company can hire for easy to measure attributes, like compensation, and protect itself from difficult metrics, like technical competence). Unfortunately, processes also prevent individual competence to have a noticeable impact on the company. If I got the story right, this bug was present for the last 9 years and patched upstream a couple days before the leak. Some measures could have prevented its exploitation or reduced its impact, like throttling by IP, one-time session keys and so on - and should be in place for any serious application - but it's entirely possible they had fixed schedule for patches and mis-evaluated this flaw as non-critical. A LOT of companies carry obsolete dependencies for a long time.