It's not a team, all you need is one fucking idiot who sometime in the 80s once wrote some software that ended up on a satellite. After that everyone will belie

It's not a team, all you need is one fucking idiot who sometime in the 80s once wrote some software that ended up on a satellite. After that everyone will believe whatever that idiot says. I once spent two hours arguing as to why using a single static AES key for encryption on an app used by millions of people rather than just use SSL was a bad idea, they talked about how secure it was, etc, etc. After that frustration I went drinking, when I came back, I discovered that their shitty encryption system had a 4 byte field for how big the message was, I sent 256 requests 20 byte requests to that system with message 'sizes' of 0xFFFFFF00-0xFFFFFFFF and watched as the server consumed about 64 GB of RAM before falling over. (It was a .NET app so a request of that size has to go into gen3, since the subsequent requests are larger they can't reuse the existing block) Then I openly mocked them in the next meeting, they still went with their shitty encryption system because it was 'good enough' and apparently faster than SSL.