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The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standard

The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standards? And I quote: "The passwordless database allowed us to see all of the text messages going to customers in real time, including their phone numbers, bank balances and recent transactions. The database also contained the customer’s partial bank account number. Some would say when a check had been cashed, and many of the bank’s sent messages included a link to download SBI’s YONO app for internet banking." Most importantly why wasn't this tested for security purposes and instead allowed to go live with adequate QA?

quantummkv 8y ago
> The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standards? Most of these data leaks and hacks occur on nationalized banks/govt institutions. Thanks to various legacy decisions such as quotas on everything other than skills and merits, politics, decades of socialism, etc, the actual skill tech workers (or any kind of skilled workers) go to private institutions or immigrate out. You won't hear any private institutions of having data leaks with such frequency. Private sector companies have high standards. Many of the high performing and skilled people across USA are Indians. What not many people understand is than up until the last two decades, the only comfortable job in India was in the government. Private sector jobs were few are far between. Therefore, parents often pressurized kids to get into government services so that they can get official cars, manors and "benefits", without having to do any work. You can imagine what kind of people get into government institutions with such a culture. Rank idiots and rote learners. No one in India is surprised by such shoddy inefficiencies in a govt agency. It's basically expected. Politicians do not try to change this culture as it benefits them immensely and because of opposition pushback. Modi has been trying to offload more and more government agencies into the private markets, but the sheer amount of bureaucratic pushback is not helped by the opposition trying to portray him as a crony capitalist to earn political brownie points.

quantummkv 8y ago

> The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standards? Most of these data leaks and hacks occur on nationalized banks/govt institutions. Thanks to various legacy decisions such as quotas on everything other than skills and merits, politics, decades of socialism, etc, the actual skill tech workers (or any kind of skilled workers) go to private institutions or immigrate out. You won't hear any private institutions of having data leaks with such frequency. Private sector companies have high standards. Many of the high performing and skilled people across USA are Indians. What not many people understand is than up until the last two decades, the only comfortable job in India was in the government. Private sector jobs were few are far between. Therefore, parents often pressurized kids to get into government services so that they can get official cars, manors and "benefits", without having to do any work. You can imagine what kind of people get into government institutions with such a culture. Rank idiots and rote learners. No one in India is surprised by such shoddy inefficiencies in a govt agency. It's basically expected. Politicians do not try to change this culture as it benefits them immensely and because of opposition pushback. Modi has been trying to offload more and more government agencies into the private markets, but the sheer amount of bureaucratic pushback is not helped by the opposition trying to portray him as a crony capitalist to earn political brownie points.