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Oh the horrors of people using and adapting machines to improve their own workflows and improve their own productivity.
by fluidcruft 2y ago
Oh the horrors of people using and adapting machines to improve their own workflows and improve their own productivity.
- MrLeap 2y agoWhat came to mind first is a situation where like, your company has a public API endpoint that sends emails for your SaaS. It accepts destination and email content as parameters. One day you find a deposed member of Nigerian royalty has used it to appeal to an entire address list worth of strangers to help them get money out of the country. They're clearly desperate, that's why they used your password reset form's API. If your infrastructure is set up correctly, you can intercept that opportunity before it reaches the masses. Cut out the middleman. Deal with the prince directly. It's all yours now. It's your time. Daddy's eating steak tonight.
- wkat4242 2y agoThe problem is the continuity. Nobody to maintain it after the employee departs. And also legal compliance. For GDPR you have to be careful of where you store personal info, how you protect it etc. We don't want it ending up on random S3 buckets. For these reasons we centralise such things. Most employees won't care about that, they're just looking for the easiest way to get their job done. But that can lead to hundreds of millions in fines not to mention the reputation damage. I don't like things being locked down either. But I understand the reasoning behind it.