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The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video]
- lifthrasiir 6y agoThe 2011 Dropbox incident that Tom references: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-passwords-optional-for-four-hours/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...
- sneak 6y agoIt astounds me that people continue to use Dropbox after that incident. That day they burned 100% of their organizational credibility as reasonable adults with me. It's not that they made that error; it's that making that error was possible given their organization's procedures.
- __henil 6y agoThis is one of the time having a short title limit sucks. "Single Point of Failure" is a keyword that should have been highlighted.
- ffpip 6y agoI tried submitting the exact link with the same title 2 minutes after you did . Couldn't fit in the '[video]' tag :)
- lifthrasiir 6y ago"Single Point of Failure: (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Password [video]" does fit in 80 characters limit. A typical headline trick.
- __henil 6y agoI thought about it but the year is also required...
- nayuki 6y agoIt's funny how this other news item is on the front page: "Google outage – resolved" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989
- pdkl95 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416881