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Google 'could' open up all their gmail account's inboxes to an unrestricted public read-only rest api and shut down their normal email interface. They 'could' d
by jboy55 8y ago
Google 'could' open up all their gmail account's inboxes to an unrestricted public read-only rest api and shut down their normal email interface. They 'could' do this tomorrow. So everyone could see everyone else's email inbox.
Yahoo could do that and include even all the emails their users 'deleted'.
At one time, back in the 'olden days, everyone operated on the net as if this was a very real possibility.
- ry_ry 8y agoExactly. I work for one of the large ecommerce tech companies - we have some great devs and run a pretty efficient cdci pipeline, stuff ships fast. There are multiple layers of unit testing, automated testing, manual testing and peer review in place to prevent this sort of thing. Despite that, I can totally see how it wouldn't take much for a changeset in one area of the site that affected the default option in a drop-down in another to creep under the radar.
- jboy55 8y agoWell, my point being, we have an incredible degree of trust that these companies will operate in a continuous way, that their values will be unchanging. I too work at a large ecommerce tech company, and I can't see it suddenly changing. if you look at Yahoo, who knows in 10 years wether Verizon doesn't sell it off and the eventual owners decide that an ad-enabled 'look at everyone's emails' site wouldn't be worth the cost of buying Yahoo Mail's data.