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'Relatively senior' here means 'ostensibly trusted with important tasks in the past'. Both of the creators of this application (I won't say 'founders of this st
by zacharyvoase 14y ago
'Relatively senior' here means 'ostensibly trusted with important tasks in the past'. Both of the creators of this application (I won't say 'founders of this startup' because that's silly) are ex-WePay.
- adgar2 14y agoI had to look up WePay on Google. The wikipedia page says they have 30 employees as of a year ago, did YC and 1 round of funding. I have to be honest - that doesn't demonstrate a high level of trust at all these days. It's sad, but true. Plus, if you say they're "ex-WePay," I assume they were just everyday developers for WePay, not critical resources.
- djcapelis 14y agoOne would hope that even average developers for a payments company would have a better understanding of security than to make mistakes like this...
- adgar2 14y agoExcept you're talking about a payments startup. In startups, engineering talent isn't very important.
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- adgar2 14y ago> Assumptions make a... "Head of Product" sounds like a product manager, it doesn't even sound like an engineer at all - this makes it even less surprising that these pathetic security holes existed. Just to be clear, that means my assumptions you lambasted were generous. Not folly.
- gambler 14y agoWorking in a cool company doesn't automatically mean the developer is competent. Neither is working for a large corp for that matter. I've seen far too many examples of this, unfortunately.
- kcbanner 14y agoYep. This happens all the time.