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With a broad statement like this, I would usually just suggest this is inflammatory and surely overstated. However, I've also worked at a financial institution
by oasisbob 8mo ago
With a broad statement like this, I would usually just suggest this is inflammatory and surely overstated.
However, I've also worked at a financial institution which used core systems by Harland Financial Systems. Their "encryption" for data in transit from teller workstations to the core system was just a two byte XOR, and they sent the key at the beginning of the connection!
Was so unbelievable to be able to crack this in under a half-hour after noticing patterns in a PCAP. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
That fraud was good enough for our regulators and theirs, so I have no doubt the industry is filled with rotten incompetence through and through.
- ryandrake 8mo agoThe biggest disappointment in my 30 years of adulting has been how much absolute, shameless incompetence is out there in the workforce. When I was a kid, I naively thought that adults were smart and knew what they are doing. Then I got into industry and saw so many people just outright bluffing for 8 hours a day before going home, day in and day out. It's amazing that society even functions at all.
- zos_kia 8mo agoI think that's actually an interesting feature of society as a macro system. It is very fault tolerant, which is frustrating for any power user but without which the system as a whole would not function at all.
- eviks 8mo agoOr without which the system would function much better because all poorly functioning systems would fail, forcing designers to focus on fixing the faults
- zos_kia 8mo agoI think of it as a plane that cannot land. Allow it to fail in flight and you won't have a plane to fix or designers to fix it.
- Foivos 8mo agoAt least when you realize it, you are cured from any imposter syndrome you might have.
- navigate8310 8mo agoUntil you actively start looking for genuine personals from the flood of incompetents