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Due to a bug, for a few months I received email addressed to google@gmail.com. This was years ago, when Gmail was still newish. I couldn't send mail from that
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
Due to a bug, for a few months I received email addressed to google@gmail.com. This was years ago, when Gmail was still newish.
I couldn't send mail from that address, but I sure did receive it. An endless torrent of weird junk, and a surprising amount of personal data, business secrets, and passwords. If I was maliciously minded I could have done a lot of damage.
I spent those months trying to find any way to get a message into Google to fix it, and only eventually succeeded when I learned a friend-of-a-friend actually worked there, and they helped un-scramble my account.
- abalaji 6y agoThat's amazing, sounds like a blog post in and of itself.
- iJohnDoe 6y agoFor all the “smart” people at Google, their incompetence is astounding.
- HenryKissinger 6y agoDon't they have like three different internal Javascript libraries or something?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoAm a Googler who doesn't write Javascript, opinions are my own etc etc... I don't know how many there are, but are you saying that 3 would be a lot? There's probably hundreds of internal libraries for other languages like Java, C++, Go, etc. 3 really doesn't seem excessive.
- genuine_smiles 6y agoThey must be real big libraries
- hoseja 6y agoMaybe he means "comprehensive frameworks". The kind that do everything. The kind you probably shouldn't mix together.
- renewiltord 6y agoI would personally be worried if they only had one.