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The xss vulnerabilities in Reddit aren't a great example, since they haven't harmed the service, same for the password fiasco even. Reddit's problems are more
by dood 19y ago
The xss vulnerabilities in Reddit aren't a great example, since they haven't harmed the service, same for the password fiasco even.
Reddit's problems are more conceptual: not fixing the recommendation engine and not thinking through the game-theory of their system are the main reasons for Reddit succumbing to the dumbness of crowds so easily.
- Tichy 19y agoI think no matter how much planning you put into it, you will always make mistakes. Mabye if you release early, you can also discover the mistakes sooner. And the cryptography stuff was a bad example, I think. Seems to me with proper "design", the public keys algorithm would be a pluggable detail (I mean the actual mathematical algorithm, not the implementation of the whole cryptography system).